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  1. Which is the Best Weather Station in the UK for Me to Buy?

    Which is the Best Weather Station in the UK for Me to Buy?

    People from right across the UK ask us every day: "Which is the best weather station for home use?" Our simple guide below will help you narrow down to the right choice for you.

    Things to consider:

    • What information you would like the weather station to provide?
    • Accuracy & robustness required.
    • Would you like to be able to view your weather station data when you're away from home via a smartphone app/website?
    • Is the look of the main indoor unit important to you (it might be the first thing you look at each morning).
    • Do you live in a stone building or have other significant solid structures between where you would like to place an external sensor and the main indoor unit? This could mean some lower-end wireless weather stations would struggle to communicate between units.
    • And of course – your budget to buy a weather station will have a bearing on which is best for you.

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  2. Which Weather Station for My School?

    Which Weather Station for My School?

    If you have been doing some research already on a weather station for your school, you will have seen there are various weather stations on the market that are able to store data on a PC for later analysis, to create graphs, generate summaries, and more. There are two weather stations that we recommend for use in education: the Davis Instruments Vantage Pro2 range, and the Davis Instruments Vantage Vue. Other models are too basic, not robust enough thus their longevity is short, and do not give the accuracy required.

    Our Top Recommendations for School Weather Stations

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  3. Accuracy of Weather Instruments

    The High-Accuracy Davis Vantage Pro2 Weather Station

    The accuracy of weather instruments we offer varies from very basic up to scientifically accepted. Generally the level of accuracy is reflected in the price. Bear in mind that it is often trend or linearity that is more important than accuracy.


    Digital consumer products often state resolution which should not be confused with accuracy. Resolution is simply the number of decimal places that the instrument can display and not its accuracy. Consider also a traditional bulb thermometer where the accuracy depends on the scale being correct and aligned correctly as well as your ability to read off the mensicus against that scale.

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  4. Wireless Reception

    If you are in a stone property or a building whose construction may be a barrier to wireless signals then you should consider carefully before purchasing a wireless system.

    You may already be aware of problems affecting other wireless devices you have. The performance of the transmission may be affected by the density of the fabric or where you position the sensors and the receiver.

    By making sure that there is a line between them without passing through difficult building fabric, such as placing the receiver in a window reveal in sight of the sensors, the signal should find a way through without a problem.

    Although wireless products work well for the vast majority of users reception can be adversely affected by a host of other apparently invisible influences. Interference from other transmission rarely causes problems because it is on other frequencies but adjacent high power transmission such as mobile phone masts and power transmission lines can cause problems. Also

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  5. Warranty Periods

    The products we sell come with a 1 year manufactures unconditional warranty. However we are always willing to look at products that might have had manufacturing faults that did not manifest themselves within that period.


    By the nature of the product and fact that they have been installed outside we need to see and test any items thought to be faulty before we can offer a repair or exhange. We ask you to consider that there is not point in sending you replacements and repairs until we can be sure which if any component is faulty.

    We have our own test facilities for comparing wind speed against calibrated anemometers, barometers and thermometers against known good references, rain gauges with measured amounts and even spectrum analizers for RF signals. Armed with all these tools we have a greater ability than anyone we know to diagnose and resolve problems.

    Please contact us with your order number both during and after the warranty period for

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  6. A Forecaster or a Weather Station?

    A Weather Forecaster usually provides any of the following information.

    • Temperature (In and Out)
    • Humidity (In and Out)
    • Barometric Pressure numerically and graphically
    • Weather Forecast up to 24hrs ahead
    • Moon Phases

    You will probably be able to add extra Temperature, Humidity and UV sensors depending on the model.

    A Complete Weather Station provides in addition to the above

    • Wind speed and direction
    • Rainfall information

    Depending on the sophistication of the model you purchase you may be able to add additional sensors. Not just for temperature and humidity but also for UV (ultra violet) and solar radiation, soil moisture and temperature and leaf wetness.

    Most of these complete weather station systems can be connected to a PC to log and record the data collected through a serial or usb port and even an IP connection.

    To learn more about this

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