La Crosse Technology Color Forecast Station - Large Display, Temperature/Humidity Alerts, Seasonal Scenes - Indoor/Outdoor Monitoring, HI/LO Records, Barometric Pressure - Atomic Time, DST Updates

A really beautiful piece of technology by La Crosse -- Setup a breeze and began providing accurate information immediately.

did not like when received - would not hold setting up. returned....you had to look straight in front of it completely to read the items.

I purchased 2 of these forecast stations 7 weeks ago, one for upstairs and one for downstairs. I have had various weather stations for over 20 years, and this is by far my favorite. It has a beautiful color display with all of the features that I normally use. Unfortunately, both of the units that I received had a design or quality control flaw with their misaligned backup battery holders. I noticed that several other reviewers mentioned that the battery backup feature did not work on their unit as well. Neither of my units had a working battery backup feature. A quick examination of the battery holder revealed that the positive terminals on the battery holder were partially blocked by the plastic housing due to their misalignment. This prevented the positive terminal on the battery from making contact with the positive contact on the battery holder. Some reviewers solved this problem by using different batteries, but I chose another work around involving aluminum foil so that the positive terminal on the battery would make contact with the positive contact on the battery holder. I could have returned both units to be replaced with other units, but chances are they would have the same battery connection design/quality control flaw. This weather station has such a mesmerizingly beautiful display that I chose a workaround and now have battery backup on both units. I considered using a Dremel tool to grind or cut away part of the plastic housing that prevented contact by the positive battery terminal. I may do the Dremel tool fix later, but for now went with an aluminum foil fix.

La Crosse has several layouts with similar info so you can pick what you want to look at. I chose this one for the emphasis on the outside temp. I can see that from afar. Time is tiny... don't get this one as a clock. This one has a couple extras which tipped the scales. Moon phase is a bonus, pressure graph is a bonus. But that's a personal preference.Tech setup was great after battling my old Sharp wx station every time the remote unit needed batteries. This one... insert batteries and it works. Did a quick roll through the settings and we're up and running. Nice to have some feedback on both ends too. Red light on the remote and signal strength on the display.Can't speak to the range as I'm not taxing it much. Remote unit is 10' away with one external wall between.Now to see if it lasts.Opportunities for improvement:- Backlighting has two settings (plus off) that are too far apart in my opinion. Super bright glowing like the sun, or barely on and worthless unless you're sitting in a pitch dark room. I'd set it somewhere between if I could but I'll live with the glare of the max setting.- When you have an atomic clock, accurate to the fraction of a second... it would be nice to have the seconds displayed. I'll miss that. But I'll use the smart phone to set the watch in the future... nbd.- The atm. pressure trend graph... I was hoping it would stop flashing once it got 24hrs of data, but nope. Dumbest display ever. 7 bars in the graph, it blanks out, then shows you one bar each second... so 7 seconds to wait until you see the trend... then blank again and it starts over. Hope you got a good look at it in that 1 second where it was complete. Really lousy design there. You could do that to the time display or the day text... build the anticipation showing it one letter at a time... but you don't because that would be insane and counter to the goal of displaying info. This isn't a neon sign in Vegas! Just show the bar graph and move it when the data fills in. And if you don't have a number for -24hr, leave it blank! It'll fill in after a day and in the meanwhile it's accurate and understandable. Really bad software decision there.None of that is worth losing a star.Note on batteries for remote. Lots of these long time remote things tell you to use alkalines and not rechargeables. That's because most rechargeables lose power just sitting there so you have to change all the time. I use Eneloops which do not decay much over time and they worked fine for my last remote unit. (and any other device with low power needs that need to last... i.e. remote controls)So far, loving the station. Accuracy looks good so far.

First off I would like to thank LaCrosse Technology for creating these weather stations so I don't have to look for the internet. If you have a home (whether your in the urban, suburban or rural area) you will get better results setting up your station. If you live in apartments make sure you have a balcony with alot of shade, make shade on a fence and/or bush (it was frustrating until I figured something out). Please make sure your apartment approves of this too.Now to the product, I already have a weather sensor so all I have to do is get it calibrated to guess the upcoming weather (not the weather right now). People complain that this station don't give the (right now) weather when it predict the weather between 6-24hrs ahead of time so give it 2-4 business days to calibrate the weather in your area (check your weather on your phone tomorrow and it will already have that predicted). The relative pressure (barometer) I like you can set it and it rises and falls in .03 mercury inches....so if the internet says 30.02inHg and the station says 30.03 the station is just rounding off (unless the internet goes 30.04 and the station changes to 30.06 or it hits 29.99 and the weather station says 30.00). FYI sometime the stations goes .02 mercury inches keep that in mind. (PLEASE CHECK YOUR STATION BAROMETER MATCHES WITHIN THE INTERNET BAROMETER DATA IT WILL MAKE YOUR STATION ACCURATE)Overall if your impatient in letting the weather station work it's magic or not good at finding and good shaded spot for your weather station get your money back or don't buy....ive been using LaCrosse for 2 years and no disappointment and learn how to make their product work for me. Works out for me and gave you my thorough opinion about the product.