Tempest Weather Reviews

by Electric Monk

Nice hardware, but i feel like TempestWeather is trying to hide the actual info from my personal weather station behind forecasts and things I’m not interested in seeing. The old version was preferable, where it was just my station’s readings, history, and graphs, but now that’s hidden away under the little icon at the top, and launching TempestWeather always starts me in things I have no interest in. These changes also impact the web links, but you can modify the URL for the old interface. Additionally, you can’t set the unit to Celsius and then share the web link to your station to your American neighbours as they can’t then view it in Fahrenheit, your personal preference is also what’s reflected on the web link, instead of allowing them to pick unit.

by RonTheAppraiser

Yesterday here just north of Albuquerque, Northern Mexico we had rain, freezing rain, and snow accompanied by 45 mph winds. The Tempest was spot on wonderful for the winds. But NOT for the precipitation. My AccuRite station (and four other non-Tempest weather stations within 0.25 miles) all recorded between 0.46” and 0.52” of precipitation. My new Tempest recorded 0.22” of precipitation. That may have been correct for the liquid precipitation, but it completely missed everything else. I am very disappointed. Is there a “workaround” or “fix” in the recording/reporting software for the non-liquid types of precipitation????

The iPhone app is pretty decent once you learn all the tricks for expanding the particular area if interest (wind, precipitation, temp). I wish there was a weekly/monthly/annual ytd summary available. And the interface with WeatherUnderground is perfect - simple, accurate, continuous.

by DaveH48

First, understand that Tempest Weather Station is a device for collecting local surface meteorological observations for use by Weather Flow. It does this reasonabley well. It is very good at thermodynamics properties measurement. It is less good at wind speed and rainfaill.

WeatherFlow collects the data and provides it to weather services for use in model initialization. In return, it provides a local forecast for your location with more precise time of arrival information than that in NWS official area forecasts. This helps with planning outdoor activities.

The Tempest Weather app lets you see the current conditions and forecast on the go. I'm post-cataract surgery but still have near focus deficits. I have trouble reading the percipitation probability values in the iPadOS version of TempestWeather . The iPhone version is more readable.

The temperatures above them are easily read. WeatherFlow needs to review the UI for readability. If Gramms can't read it, it needs work.

WeatherFlow offers a number of activity specific Apps for sailing, kite surfing, agricultural operations, etc that use the WeatherFlow refined local data and modeling. These are subscription services. They may not require a local weather station. These are an example of what WeatherFlow can do with its refined local data and modeling.

by Cyberjew

I LOVE LOVE LOVE your product! As a licensed amateur radio operator, I am interested in being able to send WX updates via APRS (ideally via RF through the TNC in my TM-D710G but I wouldn’t be opposed to IP-based APRS updates either). If Tempest has some form of serial interface (Bluetooth maybe?) it would be a fairly trivial effort to incorporate what needs to be transmitted to the TNC. One of your biggest competitors (Davis Instruments) incorporated APRS in their WeatherLink for APRS. I’d be willing to bet you’d get a pretty hardcore group of ham radio followers that would jump on the Tempest bandwagon if you added APRS functionality to Tempest! Supposedly there’s a third party piece of software called Weather Display that people are using to make this happen with Tempest today but I’m still trying to track it down.

by Turtlebeachbum

TempestWeather & web sites needs a dark mode!! In my cabin, I use an Apple iPad as a permanent, always on, wall mounted monitor for the Tempest. In my shop, I use a dedicated, always on, built Windows 10 PC with dual, wall mounted 21’ monitors (Tempest open in MS Edge browser in portrait mode on one monitor & My Radar Pro on 2nd monitor). The default UI for both is extremely, way to bright and needs to have a dark mode. It’s 2021, time to get in the game with a dark mode!! The actual weather station is fine but is never seen. The UI is what is seen and used. Dark mode please. Thank You

by KM IT Associate

TempestWeather is as good as I could have hoped for. Set up and use are extremely easy and clean. The only issue is the inability to schedule notifications or mute them for a select period of time. No need for 30 (very timely and accurate) lightning notifications at midnight as a storm rolls in. Would love to be able to force touch and mute a notification for a half hour OR select to mute notifications around bedtime. Another option would be to add a mileage range to notify within. Often get notifications as a storm rolls past us 20 miles away.

All in all, fantastic work! Let’s tweak the notifications and we’d be a 5 star app.

by Alan Volt

Great app so far, but a few additions would improve it further:
Dark mode that honors the device setting to switch in time or stay dark.
Setting to always start TempestWeather in the weather station device view, vs the forecast view.
Always show “feels like” beside the temp on the station view. Currently starts out with dew point, then switches to fells like at some point. Many of us are most interested in “feels like”, and that is the primary reason I launch TempestWeather before going outside. If “feels like” is not yet calculated, show a “-“ vs dew pt, so we know it is still calculating.
Calculate “feels like” better. My acurite station display seems to do a better job of taking temp, wind, humidity, etc into account. I took a screenshot last night that Tempest showed 43.2 degrees F, 38% humidity, 63 mph wind, and showed “feels like” 32 degrees... not even close!
Allow settings to show larger primary info (temp, hum, wind, feels like) for permanent display on wall mounted old phone or tablet.

I love the new wind display meter, bar graph style. Very effective display. Keep up the great work! Love the weather station!

by Mike Ntx

This Tempest has a lot of promise. The only downside I see currently is that it doesn’t accurately pick up on the amount of lighter rains; otherwise, after three weeks I have found it to be quite accurate. I am sure some firmware modifications will address the rainfall shortcoming.

UPDATE: This week we had a good rain. My Tempest started recording the lightest sprinkles which lasted for a couple of hours before the intensity increased. When the rains were over the next day, I compared the rainfall recorded by the Tempest (1.45 inches) to my standard gauge about 25 feet away (1.40 inches). I’m convinced the difference is the ability of the haptic sensors to pick up the lighter stuff that really doesn’t accumulate in a standard glass gauge. I take back my initial review.

by Solvang Don

I am 34 days into my Tempest weather station and the Weatherflow developers have kept every promise. I would like to say I couldn’t ask for more but I haven’t seen the feature that is most important to me come online. The ability to adapt to my temperature conditions rather than copy the local weather forecast has yet to show itself. I live in a valley where my mornings are well below freezing and a half mile away my neighbors never have to protect their plants and animals from damage. I hope to see my system predict my conditions soon.

by SabresFan1

I really love this weather station, but TempestWeather is a bit frustrating to me… it is perfectly functional and stable, I just get frustrated trying to use the graphs because they have a “smoothing” function, drawing a smooth line between ~5-10 data points, rather than plotting all of the data. That might be acceptable for temp and pressure, but for wind speed, it’s awful. The average wind speed and wind gusts are completely different depending on your “zoom level” because it tries to smooth the graph based on a handful of data points. I wish they’d just used the graphing function from their other app, SailFlow, as those wind graphs are FAR more useful, user friendly, easy to understand, and representative of the actual behavior.

by Appleman84829

This is a fantastic weather station. The best one I’ve own! I would have given it a five star rating if it had one additional feature. More on that later. The unit was extremely simple to setup. It started sending data to TempestWeather as soon as the setup was complete. I had a thunderstorm the evening I received the unit. Lightning detection was accurate and timely. Rain onset, rate, and amount was accurate and notification was right on time. Highly recommend.

Now what would it take for that 5th star? An Apple Watch app and complications. I rely on weather data on my Apple Watch more than my phone. I currently have complications from Carrot Weather on my watch but would love to have the data from the Tempest displayed. Any plans on creating an Apple Watch app? That would complete the system.

by Z-Wx

As a retired old weather forecaster I am blown away by my new Weather Flow instrument and their supporting apps. Accurate, dependable, historical, and brilliantly designed. It measures wind, rainfall, and solar from the top of my roof, and temp, humidity, pressure, and lightning strikes from a separate unit under a north-facing eave. It is all networked with a wireless router device in my office. The unit on the roof is solar powered and the whole system has no moving parts! Support is timely and helpful. A couple of weeks ago our local internet provider went down for a few hours. I received email notification from Weather Flow asking if they could help because data had stopped flowing. I waited a number of years for a home weather station. I'm absolutely delighted with the Weather Flow!

by Weatherview156

This brilliantly-designed, sturdy, compact, wireless weather station using sonic, haptic, and computer technology provides not only instantaneous but also historical data of all meteorological parameters. Particularly noteworthy is the Tempest’s comparative data access to multiple other local/regional Tempest stations coupled with experiential learning and AI to produce truly local (“micro”) and regional (“macro”) forecasting that always equals or beats the NWS. The personal Tempest webpage that comes with the station is accessible by cell phone or computer anywhere in the world with Internet as well as to multiple family members. Moreover, at an individual owner’s discretion the data can be shared with The Weather Underground’s network!!
I live right on the North Atlantic coastline and have been fascinated by its ever-changing weather conditions, for decades using analog wireless instruments: namely Maximum’s Criterion Maestro Anemometer/Mini-Max Temperature together with a Chelsea Professional Shipstrike aneroid barometer augmented by internet data out of Pease International Airport’s tower. I find my new Tempest unit tracks all this data precisely, but gives far more meteorological information AND historical trending.
Perhaps the most amazing aspect of the Weatherflow Tempest is just how easy it is to get it set up and running!!

by Lindy2

Tempest absorbed Weather Flow who I bought my first two weather receivers from. I have had weather systems for years, most systems with several components. So Weather Flow technology was amazing, and compact. Now the Tempest is only one unit, and it does everything! The new solar panels pull in the energy to keep it all working. The information is always there at your finger tips. The forecasting gets better as the system learns your climate signature. The Tempest app gives you a history of your weather components, as well as immediate info. I’m very pleased! And I have used the technical support team, and they respond quickly and efficiently, and even check back to make sure everything is performing as it should!!! 5 STARS!!

by John Ponz

The Tempest is a great weather system. The hardware and app took about 5 minutes to set up. Once you have everything installed and online, you have instant up to the date weather data coming from the hardware. This data is integrated and processed through Weatherflow's AI to produce hyperlocal weather forcasts that are guarenteed to be more accurate than the publically available forecasts. The only issue that I have is of my own making. Do to siting limitations my wind readings are always low compared to other stations in the area. TempestWeather itself is great and all of the data is easily found and tracked.

TempestWeather is simple and intuitive. It is very easy to locate the information that you need, and everything is logically layed out. There are even charts that allow you to see semi-historical data. The unit easily connects the Weather Underground and some great third party apps.

The bottom line is if you like or need to know local weather data, the Tempest is a great solution which provides data through an intuitive interfact. I highly reccomend the Tempest.

by Frustrated Weather Person

So far I have been extremely pleased with the simplicity and accuracy of the Tempest system. It is extremely sensitive to changes in wind speed and direction. One advantage over conventional wind instrumentation is it continues to work during an ice storm which I just experienced. Also I got to see how the rain gauge would respond to freezing rain. It underestimated the freezing rain where for regular rainfall it can be up to 20% on the high side. In summary Tempest is extremely accurate with the exception of measuring rainfall and it could potentially be adjusted with a fudge factor.

by OregonTrails

I love the Tempest weather station, but the point of the exercise here is to rate TempestWeather , not the weather station. I’ve had the station and TempestWeather for three months and, up to now, the two have worked flawlessly in tandem. Today however, TempestWeather decided that it would no longer open. The station is still online, because, if I go to the website, I can access it, but TempestWeather will not open. When I click on it, I will get the opening blue screen and TempestWeather will close. I’v restarted the hub, but again, the issue is not with the weather station itself. I uninstalled/reinstalled TempestWeather ... Same problem. I tried it on another of my IOS devices... Same problem. I tried it on my wife’s IOS device... Same problem.

Something has dramatically (and recently) gone wrong with the IOS app and no amount of fussing will help.

EDIT: TempestWeather developers got back to me and there was a fix put in place that rectified the crashing-on-opening issue. App working just fine across all iOS devices.

by BarkleysDad

My old weather station had failed after nearly 15 years with intermittent component failures a constant irritant. I’d been looking for a replacement system, even though we’re not an official weather reporting site for NOAA, to produce local weather for our private aviation operations. We do have such a site about 12 miles from us, but conditions can vary given local topography. Tempest looked like a good fit.

I bought the system and it has turned out to be a perfect fit!

We can obtain weather instantly from such devices as our Alexa, from our phones and even from a linked view on our airport website. The families here now enjoy instant surface barometric pressure, wind reports, temperature, dew point and lightening/rain advisories. Most reassuring the official reporting station 12miles north is alomost always in agreement with our station except for local surface wind and always in agreement on baro pressure.

by Marco's Big Backyard

I’ve been using the Tempest Weather Station for about 6 weeks. It was a simple 5 minutes from switching the unit on until I was getting weather data on my devices. I really like the accuracy of the temperature, wind, rainfall, barometer changes. This is by far the absolutely best home weather station I have had on over 25 years of using different systems. Sharing TempestWeather for our location’s weather with family really makes me appreciate the accuracy and simplicity of this advanced system.
Also have Tempest online with Weather Underground. WU rates my data input a “Gold” status.
100% recommend the Tempest Station and TempestWeather .

by The Very Original Buzz

So many times reviews of new tech hardware/software say "easy to set up". And then the opposite is true unless you have an advanced degree in engineering or similar... Not so with the Tempest... WOW !! Setup was done in about 5 minutes flawlessy the first time... It took me more time to mount it on the house, where I wanted it then the set-up of the unit. And so far I could not be happier. It was transmitting data within minutes, and has now been through a couple of nasty storms etc., and running like clockwork. A big tip of the hat on the development of the Tempest. In many ways they underpromise and over deliver... Just an excellent product... Mic drop....

by Sterkur

You must log in to use TempestWeather when there is no reason to, other than the Developer is collecting email addresses!!!
I am looking at weather stations as to make a recommendation to a family member and downloaded TempestWeather for research. I can’t even see what TempestWeather looks like!!!
I myself do have Davis Instruments weather station and they require the same with their app. My friends and neighbors can’t see my weather unless they register and give their email address. ☹️ 🤬 😡

How annoying, how immature. Idiots!!

by Looking To The Sky

The Sky and Air are great and have some of the best Technology but TempestWeather definitely needs a lot of work. I think it’s sad to have one of the best weather stations on the market and have a app that looks like was made in the 90s.

The hardware side of the weather stations are great and I don’t understand why we have to go to a third-party to get good app.

by Hassan Asuka

It's really a nice smart weather station, and maybe the best smart one among the other on the market, TempestWeather need more improvement to be more professional tools.

by VOTE Obama '08

It worked fine on my older 7 but after upgrading to the 10s max when I click on an item to see the graph it’s just a blank screen. After deleting TempestWeather and reinstalling it works.

by Phuza11

I love the hardware and TempestWeather , but the analytics related to data lacks significantly. One specific is rain accumulation. It would be great having the ability to “zoom” and get totals for a week, month year etc. Temp as an example averages for a week, month or maybe custom date ranges. 5 Stars once we get that 👍🏻

by Looth

My Air arrived last night. Idiot proof setup; intuitive iOS UI; cloud publish / web access works great. Looking forward to getting my Sky.

by Steve Marr1

Love TempestWeather . One thing that would be great to see is tracking the total rain fall from my station.

Maybe I’m missing something in settings.

by Ninja Driver 70

I’m very satisfied with TempestWeather and hardware compared to the others I’ve tried in the past. It’s very easy to use and share with anyone. I highly recommend TempestWeather with associated hardware.

by JDL1286

This is a very cool update for that app. I really like the daily history log easy to read and quick reference. I would like to see in the future more color coded section, more interactive, wind graphs, possible integrated weather map. But any ways this is a really good update. The weather station is awesome and I recommend the weather station and app. Easily 5 out 5 stars ! Keep up the great work, I look forward to future updates and new products!! Thanks !!

by Rmsm83

Have had my weather flow weather station for a few days. Setup was a breeze and TempestWeather works perfectly. Alerts me as soon as a few raindrops fall. I love that you can check weather conditions of other owners across the nation.

by RK060

This is an elegant product: no moving parts, accurate, fast, very easy to set up. The range from the central hub to the sensors is as good as claimed and does not appear to be affected by rain. This cost a fraction of the high-end Davis weather station it replaced, but it appears to be at least as well made. It uploads to the internet automatically, by itself. Excellent read-out.
This works very well!

by SLOhappy

App works well on my iPad always on display and on the iPhone too. Just the right amount of main screen content without being busy. Really like how I can move the display cards around to prioritize what live readings are most important to me. Feature rich with graphs, device status, and smart integration capabilities. Simple setup and easy to use for the whole family.

by Skiwimarty

I have been super stoked with my new WeatherFlow Smart Weather Station... and particularly the lightening sensing and notifications. We live where storms can fire up rapidly coming of the mountains, and can have little warning of severe weather. We have kids out riding bikes and playing on the lake, and the lightening alerts give us timely heads-up on developing activity so we can make sure everyone is safe. I have seen the first strike from a developing storm 5 miles away, and have had the alert before I hear the thunder. Amazing!

by Newbie 24

Easy to use and great to dig into your own weather data. A+ support as well!