Wireless Weather Station w/ barometer & rainfall measurements

[Dougmeister]

Looking for the most inexpensive, yet reliable, weather station that will give me barometric pressure and rainfall measurements.

It would have to be wireless.

I have seen some rainfall devices that automatically empty themselves every 24 hours. That sounds like a "must-have" feature.

The ability to see history is nice.

The ability to "forecast" is nice, but not a necessity.

Why I want one:

1) Kids seem to get sick (Allergies? Sinus problems?) with drastic pressure changes. I don't know if these things can predict such changes, or at least warn you when they're starting. But at least it would help to know after the fact that that might be the reason.

2) Rainfall. In-laws are farmers. 'Nuff said.

Thanks.

Potential ideas so far:

La Crosse WS-7038UF Wireless Rain Gauge

La Crosse Technology WS-2317 Professional Weather Station - $99.99 (a bit rich for my blood, but may end up spending that much just for the two functions that I want!)

 

[MadAmos]

I have two weather stations that I use to put my weather info on my web site the cheaper units have some accuracy problems and I have not been impressed at all with the LaCrosse units. This one I have now and it has been working flawlessly for me for 22 months, I also have this one in an older model it has been working for 4+ years and is absolutely the best for accuracy and it updates the data more frequently so it is easier to see wind and rain data real time the other units are much slower and you will miss the peaks most of the time. My web site is in my profile and at the moment is not much but I hope to have time to revamp it in the spring. I also upload to wunderground if you have any questions PM me and I will try and help out.

 

[pm]

The Davis VantagePro is an awesome station, but if his budget is stretched at $100, then I'm thinking $535 is above it.

For what it's worth, I have a baseline LaCrosse model that does temperature, humidity and pressure but no wind or rain. I'm not sure of the model number; it doesn't say on the back, and I don't want to remove the batteries to check cause then I have to reset everything- but it's a LaCrosse. I like it. It's been reliable and definitely the humidity and temperature are accurate. I don't have another barometer to check the pressure against.

In my experience with mine, the LaCrosse weather station that I have is basic, and slow, but it seems to be of resonable quality and gets the job done.

I've been considering upgrading to a "professional" station that I can hook up to wunderground.com that does wind and rain, but I've been balking at the price. Every year, I look at it again, but I think it's more money than I want to spend. Alternatively, I was thinking about trying to get an RSS capable wireless digital picture frame and then reading the data off the internet and displaying it on the frame. This isn't quite as internet-nice as putting up my own weather station and sharing the data, but it's looking cheaper and I don't see that anyone will be all that interested in my wunderground data when my neighbor three doors down has a much better setup than I will ever buy and he uploads his data using quickfire.

 

[John Morris]

You can try one of them https://weatherstationary.com/collections/weather-stations
These are all world class most popular weather station.
Best of luck Dougmeister