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Have your own Personal Weatherman! He will even show you what to wear! Weather Forecasting Icons display weather events due to Barometric Pressure and Outdoor Temperature and Weather Boy Icon changes costume to fit. Featuring Self-Setting Accurate Tim

Be prepared for a cold, wet morning with the help of this forecast station and it is virtual weather boy, Oscar. From The Weather Channel by La Crosse Technology, the forecast station monitors indoor conditions for heightened comfort. It likewise evaluates outdoor temperatures and air pressure levels, which it employs to forecast the weather, depicted using fifteen dissimilar Oscar icons. Oscar serves as a great instructing tool for children as he models weather-appropriate costume under sunny, partly cloudy, rainy, or snowy skies. With it is radio-controlled clock, the forecast station provides precise time, resetting each day to the US Atomic Clock and adjusting mechanically for daylight savings time.

The sleek base of the forecasts station wall-mounts or stands alone on a tabletop. On it is LCD screen, equipped with eight levels of contrast, the base relays the date, time, forecast, indoor temperature and humidity, outdoor temperature and humidity, and every day high and low outdoor temperatures. Four buttons enable the user to alter display settings, disable the DST function, and check the minimum and greatest or most complete or best possible temperature and humidity readings for both indoors and outdoors. The forecast station measures indoor temperatures from 14 to 140 degrees F, and outdoor temperatures from -39.8 to +139.8 degrees F. For outdoor data, a Swiss-precision TX21U-IT thermo-hygro sensor transmits info at a 915 MHz frequency from as much as 330 feet away if unobstructed. Up to three sensors work with this system. For more exact readings, mount the sensor using the provided hardware out of direct rain or sunlight. The distinguished buy of four AA batteries is required. A fixed one-year warranty covers this item. The forecast station base measures 3-1/5 inches wide by 1-1/4 inches deep by 5-2/3 inches high, while the sensor measures 2-1/4 inches wide by 2-2/5 inches deep by 5-1/3 inches high.

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66 of 66 persons found the following review helpful.
Performs As Advertized
By Richard Peters
Easy set-up. Just insert the batteries in the temp/humidity sensor, then the base unit, as the instructions indicate. They synch up in a moment and you're ready to go. The atomic clock feature is handy for helping to keep the other clocks around the home set more accurately. Also records high/low temps for a given period. If you're looking for an easy-to-use, comparatively inexpensive indoor/outdoor wireless thermometer, this unit will do the occupation nicely.

56 of 59 persons found the following review helpful.
nice product - not 330' range
By H. Levy
This is a wonderful, well designed and well made product. It's temperature and humidity readings, indoors and outdoors, are accurate. I experienced only one issue with the device, and it is a somewhat major one. That is the stated 330' range of the exterior sensor. In order to have the exterior sensor not in the sun for the duration of any portion of the day I necessitated to place it when it comes to 25' away from the base station with one interior wall (wood stud) and one exterior wall (wood stud with fiberglass insulation). To my disappointment, no connection. I ended up resolving on a emplacement with regards to 15' away through one exterior wall only. Two other minor issues - when altering batteries you apparently need to have both initialize both base and remote at the same time - a pain when the remote is, well, remote. Also, I listen that the batteries in the remote don't last long - makes sense if they are out in frigid weather having to work continously.

25 of 25 humans found the following review helpful.
What a cool (and helpful!) little gizmo!
By Sheri in Reho
I have an Oregon Scientific wireless indoor/outdoor thermometer, but the outdoor sensor stopped working. I was going to just replace the sensor, but I found this La Cross Wireless Forecast Station on a Gold Box deal at Amazon and it was such a reasonable price (especially for all the selective information it provides) that I just purchased it instead.

I roll out of bed each morning just after sunrise and walk the dog for 20-45 minutes. As a result, knowing what the weather is like outside is rather necessary to me so I know how to dress to be comfortable for that length of time. This product has genuinely been a huge support with that!

First, it shows me the outdoor (as well as indoor) temperature AND humidity (currently 38.8 degrees farenheit and 61% humidity outside). But what's genuinely cool is that Oscar, a little animated figure on the screen, shows me how to dress! Right now, for example, Oscar shows me that it's sunny outside (because there's a sun graphic over Oscar's shoulder) but that I need to wear my heavy coat, hat and scarf because it's rather cold. If it's raining, Oscar shows me that too because he has an umbrella in his hand! The product also displays the time (atomic) and date and shows minimum and greatest or most complete or best possible temperatures outside.

My only complaint, and this was only at setup, is that the instructions said to remove the hood off the outdoor sensor in order to insert the batteries. Well, I pulled and pulled and I could not get the thing off. I ultimately had to go to a neighbor (a big guy with very big hands) and he was competent to get it off for me. It shouldn't be that difficult to remove! Also, I would have wished for the product/screen to be a little larger so that the selective information on the screen wasn't rather so jumbled together. I'm giving the product 4 stars vs. 5 for those two things, but other than as supposed or expected highly commend the product.

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