AcuRite Color Weather Station with Forecast and Temperature (02008A1)

Barry Marsh: Exactly what I wanted to replace my old indoor weather station. Item arrived quickly and works great.

United States on Dec 04, 2023

Courtney C: Large numbers so it’s very easy to read. Extremely accurate & satisfied with this product.

Canada on Jul 04, 2021

Luis Fernando Acosta Sifuentes: Una estación muy simple pero arroja los datos necesarios y precisos. El pronóstico nunca es acertado pero en general muy bien

Mexico on Dec 27, 2019

Amazon Customer: Easy to set up date, time, etc.
Large display screen is easy to see.
Seems very accurate.
Overall size of the unit was larger then I had wanted but not a problem.
Would recommend it.

Canada on Sep 19, 2017

Glenn: Over the years I have had various types of weather stations the majority of which seemed to never last or just didn't report accurately. This one however, is absolutely amazing and to date has worked flawlessly. Well worth the money..

Canada on Oct 03, 2016

Ross D.: Nice looking color display, but the outside readings are 6 to 10 degrees higher than the actual temperature. The inside the house reading is accurate, whether your running it with the power supply or on battery. You must run it with the power supply to read the display, otherwise it will not be backlit. But, in my opinion, the poor performance with outside readings makes this unit a poor choice. I placed the sensor on the north wall of an unheated building which worked perfectly with my last weather station. The sensor is placed where the sun will not shine on it. There is good airflow at this location, it is open to the north and it should have worked for this unit if the sensor was accurate. I am disappointed with this weather station.
I recently moved the weather station monitor to a spot with no other electronics on it. Before I had it on the entertainment center then moved it to a lamp table that had a Sonos speaker on it. The unit would quit displaying the readings from the outdoor sensor several times a day. I have now moved it to a lamp table with no electronics on it and it is working flawlessly. Something to try if it seems like the outdoor...

United States on Jan 25, 2016

Mrs H S E Gooding: This is probably a very good piece of equipment however it is absolutely no good outside of America as all its functions are US set - zones, temperature, voltage, etc.
The sellers have been excellent in refunding and taking back the weather station.

United Kingdom on Jan 21, 2016

AC: Pretty nice, but not perfect. It has a decent horizontal viewing angle, but the vertical angle is very small/narrow. Standing directly in front of it while using it's table-top stand, you can move side to side quite a ways and still read it, but if you squat down, or stand on a box, the numbers virtually disappear entirely. We found that putting it on a coffee table (about 24 inches off the ground) was the ideal viewing height when using the table-top stand. We have not tried mounting it to a wall (which it does support), where the viewing angle would be 90 degrees, so I cannot comment on that approach.

The colors are nice, and the display is fairly bright. The temperature accuracy is pretty close, but not perfect. I set the outside sensor right next to the base unit, and waited quite a while for them to stabilize. The reported temperatures were about two degrees different, and I found that the outside sensor was actually correct (in agreement with a third thermometer), while the base unit was two degrees too high (reporting 76 degrees in a 74 degree air conditioned house). Since we are mostly interested in the outside temperature, and the inside...

United States on Aug 25, 2015

Marty B: I purchased an Oregon Scientific weather station about 18 years ago and it still faithfully reports my inside and outside temperatures with two sensors I have in my yard. However, the clock and date functions no longer work and I wanted to replace the base station with another O.S. unit. Unfortunately, Oregon Scientific new models no longer support the outside sensors I have, so I decided to switch brands and try this AcuRite model.

Setup
I received my unit promptly from Amazon (Thanks, Prime!) and set the station up in less than five minutes. (Be sure to have five AA batteries on hand - you'll need two for the outside sensor and three for backing up the base station's settings.) The display is drop dead gorgeous... plenty of light makes the screen quite readable across the room and the colors are pleasing. Other reviewers mentioned that the display is dim and hard to read - but if you have it plugged into an AC socket and have the display set at 100%, it is hard to understand the complaint.

The only question I had in setting the station up was which geographic region in the US I should choose... the map in the instructions was not very clear as...

United States on Sep 06, 2014