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Pros

Only problem is the total rainfall works only to 10. About the only thing that would be better is for a meteorologist to wake me in the morning and present all the information. My home is a block house with foil insulation and vinyl siding.



Cons

Temperatures read 140 degrees out in massachusetts, then 0 degrees out, then froze at 52 degrees. Display automatically switches from showing the dew point to heat index when the temperature is above 80 degrees, with no way to override. Temperatures e...  Read More

This completely frustrates me. It's a shame because i wanted to work good. Not sure what to do. Very frustrated with this one.

acurite has no compunction about taking your money and then disabling your product. The website is horrible to navigate to locate customer service.

I'm quite puzzled as to why it stalls like that. Tossed the entire thing and will be searching for a higher quality unit. This unit is destine for goodwill.

There is no battery backup in the display, so you have to reprogram the date and time if the power goes out. The display has a short power cord. You have to toggle between screens with a button or auto rotate between multiple screens.

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Highlights

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Quality


Replacement for an older one easy to set up working great


It has a really improved easy to read display


Every time the power goes out when it storms the unit loses power and you lose any data that would have been obtained as well a...  Read More


It has only 2 detractions first the graphic of the rain gauge on the right hand side of the screen is only that it goes up to 1

Shipping


It arrived sooner than promised after 4 days whereas a return would take 30 days


I emailed the company who responded promptly and was able get a new display under the warranty

Competitiveness


I replaced a previous model from acurite that was five years old


Comparing it to other stations in my neighborhood on weather underground as well as the local weather station at the airport th...  Read More


I tried two other brands including the highly rated ambient ws2000 and i cant understand why its so highly regarded

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    great, easy, new and accurate.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 263.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 1,070 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 15 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    They need to help us keep birds and their “byproducts” out of the rain gauge please


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Our plastic rain gauge showed significant rain and this device said 0


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I went out to check and used my camera to look and saw that see photo in the rain collector


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I tried looking online for recommendations on how to keep birds away


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Now we’re looking for a fake snake to pose on the pipe and top of the gauge without interfering with the anemometer or direction indicator’s operation hoping that’ll help


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Had i read all of the negative reviews first i never would have bought this


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    First one lasted 5 years and was not very accurate


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I did not use tech support or customer service

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