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Does anyone own one of these:

http://www.edirectory.co.uk/pf/880/mia/d/technoline+complete+weather+station+es+ws1600/pid/6343534

I am thinking about the possiblity of buying one and have found this model (and the one above = same but can download data to a PC about £10 more expensive). Others systems are more expensive. Is this any good?

I bought a La Crosse for my friend for Christmas, he loves it.

I joined a weather forum and asked their advice before I bought it.

Two things he has learnt though is that it takes up a lot of his bandwidth downloading all the information onto his computer and that the the bit you put outside for reading the temperature needs a guard on it as when the sunshines directly on it it gives a false reading but you can make  the guard yourself.

Also when you put up the wind gauge bit you can't have tree's, buildings in the way as you wouldn't get a true reading.

Sinbad

 I bought a weather station off e-bay the other month for about £30.00 really nice bit of kit and gives me the info I require :)

weather stations are handy to record things if you can't look out of the window yourself! ;D ;D

Since it is free of charge, on the internet, use the meteorological site on line it gives a 14 day weather forecast.

I mentioned the internet for the data but that idea was frowned upon.  ;D ::)

It is more for recording the data like max and min temps, humidity etc...

The info on the web is only as accurate as wherever your local weather station is