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Consider These High-Tech Weather Devices for Your Home
“What’s the weather today?” is often the first question we have each morning. And while weather apps abound, they lack the personal, immediate environmental focus many want. Enter the home weather station: whether for hobby or hard data, these handy devices offer a wealth of information, from immediate conditions to forthcoming weather patterns, allowing users to prepare accordingly. And while they won’t put the NOAA and other weather experts out of work quite yet, these gadgets are full of useful (and intelligent) features that will quickly make them essential in your everyday life.
Home Wi-Fi Weather Station
Tracking both indoor and outdoor conditions and outfitted with a full color, easy-to-read LCD display the Ambient, which looks like something you might see the pros using, monitors wind speed, wind direction, rainfall, UV, solar radiation, barometric pressure, indoor/outdoor temperature (F and C), indoor/outdoor humidity, dew point, heat index, wind chill and, somehow, even more. And while it comes with its own handy display, you can also get this flood of data delivered directly to their phone, tablet, laptop or desktop, in an easy-to-parse form, so you always know your home conditions, no matter where you are. And because Ambient knows that weather nerds love community, the device allows you to easily connect your system to the Ambient Weather Network—and Weather Underground, the world’s largest personal weather station network—to share your real-time data and forecasts with like-minded weatherheads. Ambient owners can even leverage their data to build customized weather dashboards that can be shared socially.
Smart Rain Gauge
For some homeowners there’s only one meteorological measurement that matters: rain. Whether it’s for gardening or flood awareness, rainfall data can be of the utmost importance for would-be home weather station owners—and for them, there’s the Netatmo Smart Rain Gauge. Pairing with the Netatmo Weather Station, the Rain Gauge tracks rainfall measurement in real time, delivering the data directly to your home, as any flood-prone homeowner knows that even a half-inch can make a huge difference. The Netatmo will even send you an alert as soon as it detects rainfall beginning, offering the opportunity to close windows or bring in items left outside. In addition to tracking real-time rainfall, the Netatmo keeps an archive of past rainfall, giving owners a better idea of what they need to do to care for their home and garden.
Tempest Weather System
Simplicity meets sophistication in the Tempest Weather System. Installed in your backyard in less than five minutes, this sleek weather station tracks UV index, rainfall, wind, pressure, temperature, humidity, and even lightning—all while remaining completely solar-powered and providing a super long-range wireless connection. And what does the Tempest do with all that real-time data? Pairs it with its A.I.-powered Nearcast Technology to predict what’s coming next—and thanks to its robust Wi-Fi connection you get it all, instantly, on your phone or other connected device. The Tempest even integrates with smart home assistants, like Google Home or Amazon Alexa, allowing users to create automated triggers based on weather conditions to say, adjust the thermostat or alter lighting. Tempest will even send text alerts when lightning is approaching.
Atmotube PRO
For a select few, rain or shine is not as important as pollen or dust, and for them there is the Atmotube PRO, a wearable weather station with a strong focus on tracking air quality. In addition to tracking real-time temperature, humidity and barometric pressure, the Atmotube PRO performs instant analysis on air quality, monitoring major pollutants, including dust, smoke, pollen and soot, as well as Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). The information allows allergy suffers to see their personal exposure as they move through the world, and prepare themselves accordingly. All the Atmotube’s readings are displayed Immediately in an easy-to-read format on your phone or other connected device.
Text by John Elliot | Photo credits on mansionglobal.com | Read More Here
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