Product Description
Stylish Forecasting and Timing!!
Forecasts the weather 12-24 hours in advance with three levels
of pressure and temperature indicators: Rising, Steady or
Falling. Displays indoor and outdoor temperature and humidity,
and provides comfort level and heat index indicators. Sets
itself to the US Atomic Clock signal resulting in no need to
ever adjust for Daylight Saving Time.
Product Details
- Color: Black
- Brand: Oregon Scientific
- Model: BAR388HGA-BK
- Released on: 2006-08-25
- Dimensions: 3.00" h x 6.70" w x
4.70" l, 2.50 pounds
Features
- Automatically sets itself to the
U.S. Atomic Clock never needs adjusting for Daylight Saving
Time
- Displays indoor and outdoor
temperature and humidity
- Exhibits moon phases, weather
forecast, and weather trends
- Includes remote sensor with 100-foot
range; reads up to 3 sensors
- Ice Alert
Editorial Reviews
Whether you're planning a day
in the garden, at the beach, in the desert or on the mountain,
this wireless weather station keeps you abreast of pending
rain, sun, clouds, and more. Wireless and easy to setup, this
weather station's remote temperature/humidity sensor sets up
in the garden, greenhouse, shop and more, reporting data back
to the main console from up to 100 feet away. The main console
can receive data from up to 3 sensors with the purchase of
extra remote to monitor temperatures and humidity levels in
the baby's room, warehouse, music room, wine cellar and more.
The station also displays
barometric pressure, outdoor comfort levels (comfortable, wet,
dry), and is equipped with a heat index displays and warnings
(caution, extreme caution, danger, extreme danger) when it
gets too hot for your blood. Temperature, relative humidity,
and barometric pressure trends are also displayed for more
accurate weather forecasts. Four weather forecast icons
indicate whether the weather is clear, partly cloudy, cloudy,
or rainy. Weather forecasts are shown for 12 to 24 hours, so
you'll know in advance the weather within an 18- to 30-mile
radius.
More great features include
audible high and low temperature alerts and a visible ice
warning that helps you protect basement pipes and fish ponds.
The unit also features an adjustment for altitude compensation
for accurate barometer pressure readings at altitudes from 328
below to 8202 feet above sea level. With a chic design, the
station measures 4.7 by 6.7 inches (width by height). And, the
purchase is covered by a manufacturer one-year limited
warranty.
Customer Reviews
Just a couple of caveats
This unit is easy to read and works great--compared to
what, I dunno. We've never owned anything like this. But it's
fun to have, much more so than a simple thermometer.
Two caveats however. You need a very small
flat-head screwdriver in order to put the AAA batteries into
the sensor. Not so small as the one in an eyeglass repair kit
though. I had a small screwdriver with a shirt-pocket clip,
that small, and still had to file the sides down in order to
reach the deeply recessed screws. I'll have to do this anytime
the batteries need changing. Not the best design perhaps.
Second, the instructions tell you to put the
(outdoor) sensor (1) in a sight line with the (indoor)
monitor-- (2) open to the sky-- (3) out of the sun-- (4) out
of the rain-- (5) away from metal-- It's not easy to do all of
this! Ours is nestled in a plastic container cut up into the
shape of a bus kiosk and tied to a post. I'm not sure if it's
all 100% necessary.
The atomic clock took
about a day to find its signal. The instructions warn about
this odd (to me) likelihood.
It's a little discouraging to have to deal with all of
this out of the box but as I say the device is
great.
Very nice but one caution
The weather station operates flawlessly and is very clear.
I chose it because unlike some other models, this one shows
both the indoor and outdoor conditions at once for both temp
and humidity.
One caution: Although the description does
not say so, this is a desk unit only not a wall mount
unit--there's an immovable rest sticking out the back (most of
the other models are not like this)
Truly excellent weather station. Only 3
slight issues.
After comparing this weather station to the more expensive
ones, I gave in on the nice looks of this one and can't say
that I'm disappointed. We really love this unit. We check the
temperature and the humidity outside every day and not once
was it inaccurate. The rain predictor is a bit fishy to me, it
thinks it's going to rain 60% of the time when it never does.
But it beats listening to the weather people on the news who
can't even tell if it really is going to snow tomorrow.
The only 3 issues that we found with this are 1) it
doesn't have a backlight so you can't see anything in the
dark; 2) the time doesn't seem to adjust automatically to our
zone and 3) the battery on the remote sensor died in like 2
months.
Despite these 3 issues, I would buy this unit
again over all the others currently on the
market.