Wireless Indoor Outdoor Thermometer

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• Wireless Weather Thermometer
• Water resistant sensor
• Two receiver units
• Plastic case
• Uses 2 AAA batteries (not included)

Product Description
Wireless weather thermometer with two receiver units and one remote water resistant sensor. Easy to read display. Uses 2 AAA batteries (not included)

Chaney Instrument Wireless Weather Thermometer, 2 Base Units

• Wireless weather station with one remote sensor and clock
• Base unit can receive temperature data from up to three remote temperature sensors 100 feet away (one sensor included)
• Internal clock antenna receives official Atomic Clock broadcasts and sets itself
• Displays the minimum and maximum temperature readings; clock includes alarm, snooze and backlight
• Simultaneously displays both indoor and outdoor temperature in Fahrenheit or Celsius

Product Description
Digital weather stations are gaining in popularity and the information reported by this unit is endless! The easy to read LCD displays the month, day and date as well as indoor and outdoor temperature – you decide if the temperature is shown in Fahrenheit or Celsius. Temperature trend information is also available as is minimum and maximum temperature memory. This unit reports the time via radio controlled clock technology to ensure accuracy. It also features an alarm, snooze and backlight. This wireless weather station come comes with one remote temperature sensor but is capable of reading up to 3 remote sensors.

Chaney Instrument Wireless Weather Station and Clock

I Don’t Care What the Weatherman Says
By Mark Boardman

It is clear that weather forecasting is only predictable up to a certain point. This is due to the huge number of differing influences that can affect a predictable climate. Topgraphy, sea temperature, wind speed, city heat islands…these are just some of the variables that mean weather forecasting is unlikely to ever be an exact science.

However general patterns exist and simply by measuring the weather and noticing its trends, you can get a pretty good idea yourself of what sort of weather is on its way.

So how do we measure the weather? Well technology has advanced so much that we can all measure the weather wirelessly from the comfort of our own home. The main devices you will need to measure your weather are a Barometer (to measure air pressure), a thermometer (for outdoor temperature), an anemometer (or wind gauge, to measure wind speed) and a weathervane (for wind direction). There are other items you could add to this list such as a a pluviometer (rain gauge) and hygrometer (measuring moisture content in the atmosphere). And of course more advanced wireless weather stations will contain each of the above mentioned capabilities.

1. Barometers.

Barometric Pressure is the pressure of the atmosphere over the surface of the Earth. Barometric Pressure, also known as Air Pressure, is easily measured using a Barometer. These devices measure air pressure most commonly with mercury or water.

Barometers come in all shapes and sizes and are frequently sought for their ornamental or decorative value as much as a tool for weather forecasting. But these days a wireless outdoor barometer is cheap and accurate, and essential for you to measure the pressure trends in the weather.

2. Thermometers.

Wireless thermometers are now becoming increasingly popular as they enable the user to monitor outdoor temperatures from the comfort of their own home. Also they measure the maximum and minimum temperatures. So if you are expecting a record low temperature overnight, you don’t have to stay up all night checking!

3.Anemometer. (wind gauge)

An Anemometer, or Wind Gauge, is a device used to measure the speed of the wind.

The simplest type of wind gauge is the cup-anemometer, consisting of four hemispherical cups mounted horizontally to each other on a vertical shaft. Generally Anemometers can be broadly split into 2 groups, Hand Held and Wireless.

The benefit of a hand held anemometer is that you can take it wherever you are, at the top of a mountain or on a cliff face overlooking the ocean, and record the wind speed at that exact moment. A wireless anemometer however allows you to take the wind speed at a fixed point and is often incorporated within wireless weather stations. It is important with a fixed wind gauge to ensure that it is as high as possible above the ground to reduce interfering eddy currents from nearby buildings. On the top of your roof is generally a good position or if you have a large open garden then place it at the end furthest away from buildings, trees and walls.

4. Weathervane.

Weathervanes (also know as wind vanes) have been used throughout history as a means to gauge wind direction. They are a device attached to any elevated object to indicate the wind direction. Often a weathervane will be incorporated in your fixed anemometer.

Of course wind direction is less accurately measured simply by being outside and gauging which direction the breeze is coming from, or which direction the clouds are moving.

Now that you have all these variables you are already your own weather forecaster. You can watch trends in the barometric pressure to see if the pressure is rising or falling, the variations in temperature and wind speed and direction. What else can a weatherman tell you?

With a little dedication maybe you will start your own weather diary or weather blog and publish your own particular weather conditions and trends for the world to see. Or pit your wits against the professionals and see if you can begin to forecast better than they!

Whatever the weather, enjoy it!

Mark Boardman BS is a leading author and expert on the climate. For more information about global weather, go and look at these sites now to start your life as an amateur meteorologist.

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Wireless Weather Station Thermometers
By Steve Valentino

A wireless weather station with a thermometer is used to monitor time, as well as indoor and outdoor temperatures, within a 100-foot range. A wireless weather station thermometer has an inbuilt transmitter with dual or multi-channel capabilities that display temperatures in both Celsius and Fahrenheit can be placed inside or outside the home. All what is required is to mount the sensor outside, and the display unit will show the current temperature every ten seconds. It is an extremely convenient and up-to-the-second method of figuring out what the weather patterns are in your area or wherever you may roam. That way, you will not have to be at the mercy of weathpersons on the radio and television; instead, you can be your own meteorologist.

Various brands of wireless weather station thermometers like GE and Lacrosse Technology are available commonly in the market. Even from the same company various wireless weather station thermometers with variety of different features are available to suit your needs. This compact and handy device, with no hassles of managing wires is best suitable for use in homes, offices etc. It saves you from monotonous practice of switching on the TV or radio sets to get the weather news. Wireless weather station thermometer gives you the advantage of knowing the every minute weather update at the comfort of your house or office.

A small device carries wit itself a bundle of advantages, and in today’s unpredictable weather scenario, a wireless weather station thermometer is a requirement of every house.

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Wireless Thermometers – Mourning Two Pins and a Magnet
By Mark Boardman

I love all things wireless. Cables and wires have always found a way to get wrapped up between my feet. I broke my first thermometer sometime around the beginning of the 90′s, in Crossgates, Leeds. It was winter and the weather forecast was predicting a particularly cold night. Being the weather buff/geek that I am I decided to trail the outdoor thermometer cable as far out of the window as I could, to record the overnight minimum. A simple enough exercise except I had to leave the window open so as to not trap the cable. Unfortunately I woke up freezing in the small hours and, in a sleep induced haze, pulled the window tight shut, severing the wire sufficiently for the outdoor function to never work again.

This started a pattern of tripping, kicking and general weather station abuse until the wireless phenomenon came to my rescue. Suddenly the black cables reaching from the mantelpiece across the cream wall and into the back garden were a thing of the past. Wireless thermometers or weather stations allowed me to close all windows on a cold night if I so wished and still get an accurate overnight temperature. An important factor for gardeners, farmers and weather geeks alike.

A wireless thermometer (or weather station) is a simple device which allows you to check the weather outside without ever actually venturing out there yourself. You fit the outdoor probe to whichever part of the garden or house you like and it wirelessly sends the current temperatures and recent historical temperature data to your weather station positioned inside, preferably next to your favourite chair beside the fire with a hot mug of cocoa and a biscuit.

The technology is moving on quickly these days as with all things wireless, and it is now possible to get a fully functional wireless weather station recording all aspects of the weather from wind speed and temperature to humidity and pressure. They can also look good too, with more and more aesthetically pleasing stations being produced in a multitude of designs and colours.

There is a part of me that misses some of the more traditional thermometers though. My dad had an old fashioned U-shaped mercury thermometer with 2 pins and a magnet on the garage wall. Each night you would move the pin with the magnet to the top of the mercury column and the next morning wherever the pin had reached its highest point indicated the coldest overnight temperature. And then we would tap the barometer to check the air pressure. No more tapping with wireless! Oh well, times change and so must we.

Incidentally, I still have my first weather station, complete with the severed cable. It records the temperature indoors just fine, however the outdoor display is permanently stuck on -50 degrees Celsius. I don’t think we’ll be seeing temperature like that in Britain until the next ice age.

Mark Boardman BSc dip.hyp is a leading author and expert on The Weather For more information about World Weather, feel free to visit these sites.

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Do You Have What it Takes to Become an Amateur Meteorologist?
By Gary Vaughn

Cloud patterns and wind velocity. When you saw those words, you knew immediately that they dealt with the weather, right? Did you form some sort of image in your mind and did the words bring just a touch of interest or excitement? If your answer was “yes,” you may have what it takes to become an amateur meteorologist.

Have you always had an interest in the weather? Would you like to learn how to forecast the weather and use both simple and sophisticated instruments to do it? No problem. Just follow along here and we’ll have you predicting local storms in no time at all.

By being an amateur, you are just that. Not a professional meteorologist with the kind of training that allows you to work for the National Weather Service (NWS) or the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) but someone who knows the terminology and the tools needed to determine weather pattern movement and characteristics. You will become part of a network of people all over the world who match and report on weather conditions in their communities in order to make sure that the rest of the world knows what the global weather is doing at any location and at any particular time.

In order to get started with your new hobby, you’ll need both some knowledge and some tools. The knowledge will come from the Internet and the tools will be simple weather instruments that you can buy reasonably inexpensively and install yourself in your own back yard.

So that you can learn about weather and all of its terminology and nomenclature, you should run a search for the following terms, “weather” or “weather forecasting.” If you print off all the relevant information that you find for those terms, you will have more information than most books will provide. Read the information and learn everything you can about weather, weather tools and instruments, weather forecasting and weather symbols. Learn how to read a weather map. It’s not that difficult. If there is a NWS bureau nearby, you should call them and ask for a tour. Look at all the complicated and sophisticated equipment they use to provide the daily weather information.

Inside of a month of two, you should have a good weather education. Now, it’s time to put that information and knowledge to practice. It’s time for you to buy some weather instruments and gadgets. What you’ll need are the simplest forms of weather instruments and you can buy them either one at a time or in a neat little package called a home weather station.

The instruments that you’ll need are a weather thermometer, a barometer, a hygrometer, a wind vane, an anemometer, a good compass (usually comes with the anemometer), an atomic clock and a rain gauge. That’s it! Those simple instruments and Weather maps are important to track your findings and compare to the weather in regions close to you.

It may take a while for you to buy each of these instrument components but you can get them all in the home weather station package. It is a wireless multi-component package with all of these instruments in it. You simply have to install the instruments in your yard, put in some batteries and install the software on your computer or place the enclosed digital read-out screen on a cabinet or desk somewhere in your house. Every minute of the day, you will receive readings from each of the instruments and you’ll never have to go outside unless you just want to. You’ll learn what each of these instruments does and how you can use them to forecast the weather in your online weather lessons.

Then the fun begins! You will find yourself almost obsessed with the weather for a while. You’ll be challenging yourself to beat the TV weather personalities at their own game. You’ll take great pride in predicting storms before they’re announced. All this will be a blast. It’s hard to explain the exhilaration that you’ll feel being the neighborhood weather expert. Your neighbors will come to you with weather questions and ask for local forecasts. You’ll get the attention once they know your a weather nut. Not quite rock star status but you’ll get plenty of attention.

You should look at some of the following wireless weather stations if you’re going to get into this. They are

excellent, advanced tech products and the cost is very reasonable.

The La Crosse WA-1340 Weather Direct TALKING Wireless Weather Station for about $90. This unit gives you easy access to the same quality weather as meteorologists 24 hours-a-day without turning on a TV or a computer! It works without Wi-Fi, there is NO software to install, and the forecasts are totally FREE. NO subscription required.

Another great LaCrosse product is the La Crosse Technology WS-8035U-IT-SAL Wireless Weather Station with Remote Temperature and Humidity Gauge. The weather station’s main console displays a wide range of information in an easy-to-read format on a large LCD. The unit monitors indoor/outdoor temperature and humidity, as well as barometric pressure, and features a pressure history chart to give you some idea of where the weather is heading.

Oregon Scientific also makes some high tech instruments that you should consider, such as the Oregon Scientific WMR968 Cable Free Complete Weather Station. This baby goes for around $205. Completely wireless and simple to install, this home weather station tracks and stores data about more than 20 weather conditions and displays them on a touch-screen LCD monitor that measures only 8 inches wide by 5-1/2 inches high. There are three outdoor sensors, each powered by a solar cell: an anemometer that attaches to a building, fence, or roof to measure wind speed and direction; a thermo-hygrometer to measure temperature and humidity; and a self-emptying rain gauge.

Whichever choice you make is a good one. Like all other enthusiasts, you’ll probably find yourself trading up for tools and equipment until you have exactly what you want. Let’s just hope that you don’t trade up to a Doppler radar. I’m not sure your neighbors would appreciate that.

Now go out and get started. Learn your basics and begin a fun and enjoyable hobby that will give you lots of enjoyment and recognition.

Gary Vaughn writes about the weather, weather instruments and amateur meteorology at http://weatherinstrumentsinfo.blogspot.com

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Weather Instruments For the Amateur Weather Buff
By Gary Vaughn

I could talk all day about weather. Weather is one of my favorite subjects and I learned about it growing up and later over the Internet. Yea, I bought a few books about it too. It’s one of those things that, as you grow older and get into a career, you wish you had done it instead of your current career. I wish I had become a meteorologist but I’ve done the next best thing. I have my own home weather station that I forecast my local weather with.

What’s really fun is when I can look at my weather equipment and get the same results as the guys on TV and they have the National Weather Service (NWS) to get their information from. My neighbors all come to me when they have questions about the weather and what to expect the next day or so. If they’re going out of town, they call me to find out what I think about the weather in a city 400 miles away. I usually just tell them to look at the weather map for that information because I can only predict what the weather is going to do here in my town.

You know what? You could do the same thing. It’s a lot of fun and it’s comforting knowing that the weather is going to change without having to run to the TV or wait until the news comes on to get my weathercast information. In order to start forecasting and learning about your own weather, all you’ve got to have are some simple weather instruments like an indoor outdoor thermometer, a barometer, a rain gauge, a windvane and an anemometer. There are a few other tools that you’ll pick up and learn about as you get more into it but for now that’s about all you need. Oh, yea, and access to either NOAA or NWS weather maps on your computer.

The thermometer gives you the surrounding temperature. We’ve all grown up with some type of weather thermometer all our lives. The barometer provides a measurement of the atmospheric pressure which tells you when the weather’s changing or likely to change very soon. The rain gauge just catches the rain, when it falls, and tells you how much fell over your area. The windvane and anemometer are two instruments that tell you which direction the wind’s coming from and how fast it’s blowing. There are a few other instruments that you can pick up if you want, like a hygrometer or a psychrometer. Both of them measure the relative humidity, something you’ll want to know later. You can get all these components one at a time or you can do like I did and simply buy a home weather station that has all this stuff already in it and it comes in one box. You unpack it, take the different sensors and instruments outside and install them, put in some batteries because it’s wireless and go inside and set up the software on your computer. It took me about an hour to do the entire thing. Now, I’m the neighborhood meteorologist.

There are thousands of amateur meteorologists all over the world and all exchange information and keep weather records for their communities. Though most are not formally educated in meteorology, the point is, they love it and have a lot of interest in watching the weather.

If you happen to be looking for some good wireless home weather stations at a good price let me make a few recommendations here. Keep in mind that the prices go from low to high and the big difference is the grade of technological advances used in the instruments. Most lower priced stations will work very well, especially if you’re just beginning to become a weather bug.

For the higher priced models look at the Davis Instruments 6152 Wireless Vantage Pro2 with Standard Radiation Shield. A great piece of technology and can be had for around $750. Another much respected and highly recommended high end weather station is the Davis Instruments 6153 Vantage Pro2 with 24-Hour Fan Aspirated Radiation Shield.

For the really good weather stations that are not priced quite so high, consider the P3 INTERNATIONAL METRIC Wireless Professional Weather Station or the La Crosse WA-1340 Weather Direct TALKING Wireless Weather Station. Oregon Scientific also makes some great home weather stations as does Honeywell.

Whatever your choice, you will not believe how much fun it can be to watch the weather and predict the next big storm before the guys on TV.

Gary Vaughn writes about weather, weather instruments and weather technology at http://slikvee.livejournal.com/621.html

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Thermometers – A History

Weather Instruments That You Can Use to Forecast the Weather
By Gary Vaughn

Most of us get our weather information from the evening TV weather news. Another good portion of the population actually watches and enjoys the Weather Channel.

Then there are those of us who would rather put it all together while making our own observations and forecasts using our own weather equipment and instruments. This portion of the population is known as “weather bugs, weather nuts, weather aficionados, weather hounds,” and a variety of other names. The point is, these people enjoy and are sometimes obsessed by watching weather instruments and attempting to predict weather changes.

Like enthusiastic sports fans, these weather bugs can usually tell you just about everything there is to know about weather. They read about it, they watch it on TV and they go to all the online forums and weather chat lines. Many of them go to yearly or even monthly weather hound conventions. One thing is certain: every one of them will have his or her own weather station. Most of these will be wireless, digital home weather stations and they’ll have sensors placed all over their own property and often throughout the entire neighborhood.

Though they don’t have the high sophistication that NOAA and NASA enjoy, because these agencies are funded by the government, they do have preferences and specific models of weather instruments that they acquire as often as they can afford it. Some amateur weather forecasters have an array of tools and instruments that TV meteorologists would envy. It’s all part of the fascination with weather and its various patterns and intricacies.

No self respecting weather buff would be caught dead without at least two of the following tools: anemometers, thermometers (indoor and outdoor), rain gauges, barometers, atomic clocks, weather maps of all kinds, including NASA and NOAA weather maps and even travel weather maps, hygrometers, psychrometers and any other weather instrument that they can get their hands on.

While most of these tools are found as separate components, each of them is represented in the home weather stations that are offered for sale. Depending on a person’s budget, some of the weather stations are more sophisticated than others. Some specific brand names and models are preferred by some weather enthusiasts more than others, such as the WLS-8000 Weather Station. This rather pricey model features industrial grade high-resolution/highly accurate sensors, a large digital display, and 128K non-volatile memory with an integral clock. This system is fully addressable by PC via the RS-232 and it logs 4000 data points to memory. Up to the second real-time data transfer to a Windows based PC with included Weather View 32 professional software. 12 hour uninterruptable power supply is standard. This model goes for around $3750 which is comparatively cheap when you consider what the National Weather Service pays for their equipment.

However, there are wireless weather stations available that are not nearly as expensive and have much the same instrumentation as the WLS-8000. One such item is the Honeywell TE653ELW Desktop Weather Forecaster. This station includes many popular components and the readout screen can be placed on a desktop or even hung on a wall and viewed very easily anytime the consumer desires. This product is more than just a Weather Forecaster. It’s a Wireless Indoor Outdoor Thermometer and Hygrometer, a Barometer, and an Atomic Clock with Dual Alarms, Calendar, and Moon Phase. The price is $79 online. This is quite a difference. To some, this is enough. To others, it’s just the beginning of a good home weather station.

There are also portable, hand-held weather stations that one can put in the care and carry along with them to any location. It is usually no larger than an indoor telephone and gives the user a plethora of weather information. The Kestrel 4000NV Weather Tracker is the next generation of weather monitoring. You can now measure EVERY major environmental condition, easily and accurately, right in the palm of your hand. Barometric Pressure, Altitude, Density Altitude, Temperature, Humidity, Wind Speed, Wind Chill, Dew Point, Wet Bulb, and Heat Index are all found in one pocket sized instrument. The cost? About $250.

These are exciting times for weather enthusiasts and the tools needed to forecast and observe the weather are very much available and at a cost that to most is easily affordable, to most folks. Nowadays, there’s no reason not to have your own wireless weather station right in your own home. It may not be long until you’re considered a “weather nut.”

Gary Vaughn writes about Weather Forecasting Instruments and Personal Home Weather Stations at http://www.weatherinstrumentsinfo.com For more information, please visit our website.

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