If your budget is tight and your weather needs light, choose Blackshark.
We liked the ability to view the trends in barometric pressure and knowing the time of the sunset adds a small degree of predictability to your day so you can plan around it. If you want to use it as an alarm clock, you can, but it really comes into its own where the finer details of the weather are concerned. Also, we’d have liked to see some mains power support – this weather station needs two different types of batteries and an outlet would have really made things simpler.Īll things considered, though, it’s a great little station. This is fine if you live in Europe, but for American users, this might be a little annoying. If we had to find an issue with this product, it’s that the date is fixed in the day/month/year format and can’t be changed. On any given day, you can view the sunrise and sunset times, as well as the moon phase. It automatically adjusts itself for daylight savings time too, so you can just set it up and forget about it. There’s even a snooze function for those days when you want to lie in for a while. The clock has to be manually set, which isn’t a huge problem, and you can set an alarm if you’d like to keep this by your bedside. It requires two AA batteries and unfortunately can’t be plugged into an outlet, although when the batteries are running out, an indicator will appear on the screen so you won’t wake up one day and wonder what’s wrong with it. It can be mounted to a wall, although since the screen isn’t backlit, you will need a light source to be able to see it clearly. The indoor unit comes with a foldable stand at the base and measures just 7.25” long, 4” wide and 1” thick.
There is also, of course, a weather prediction, although it’s fairly basic and can only show rainy, cloudy or sunny weather. You can keep track of the current temperature (in either Celsius or Fahrenheit) and humidity, as well as the dew point and barometric pressure, and it even shows the pressure history so you can see any trends. The outdoor sensor needs two AAA batteries (not included) and wirelessly transmits all kinds of information up to 330 feet to the indoor sensor.
It retails for around 30 USD, yet provides a service that’d be very useful to anyone who likes gardening or just relaxing outside. There’s no truer example of this than the Blackshark Wireless Weather Station. Just because something is inexpensive, doesn’t mean it’s not good.