AcuRite Pro Weather Center<\/a>. It just arrived about a week ago as part of a GeekMom product test.<\/p>\nThis is part of my comparison project — I have Weather Underground archiving both weather stations’ data. I can only choose one weather station with which I can associate the webcam, so it’s on the incumbent weather station.<\/p>\n
So…what you SHOULD be seeing are similar temperatures, dewpoints and barometric pressures. I’m not convinced the wind data will match very well, the Davis anemometer is very old and doesn’t seem to be spinning as well as it used to.<\/p>\n
Comment below and let me know what you think….<\/p>\n
The purpose of this blog post is to have a place to quickly compare the two weather stations I have in my backyard. The top “sticker” is for our Davis Instruments Vantage Pro 2, circa 2004. This weather station has performed reliably for our family at each of our last four homes. 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