“Surprisingly good unit”

“We have a Davis weather station at our field office with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, and seeing wind speed and direction, temperature, etc at at glance is nice when your life revolves around the weather. I wanted something similar at home, but was not ready to pay upwards of $250 for a Davis, so I took a chance on the La Crosse after some homework online. I was a bit disappointed about the propeller style anemometer at first instead of the cupped paddle style, but it has proven itself to be effective even during snow squalls when I thought the blades would get gummed up. My house is in a somewhat protected spot and the wind tends to swirl, so the wind direction unit gets spun around a bit, but it seems to average the direction over time so still gives accurate readings. I have had the unit up for about a year now and have yet to have to change the batteries (the main readout is plugged into the wall). The barometer seems accurate and it does a pretty good job on guessing at the trend (sunny, changing, rain), the temps seem ballpark correct, and overall it has provided accurate and reliable performance for a relatively inexpensive unit. You will need to rig up some sort of pole to mount the anemometer on, and then run some wires (it is only partially "wireless"- the anemometer is connected to the temp gauge/transmitter via a phone line cable), but otherwise installation is easy. The transmit range between the temp gauge/transmitter and the base station is not that large when going through walls however. I only get about 30' worth. I have not used the rain gauge.I am back here on [...] to buy one for my father. So far, I can heartily recommend this unit.”