Leave a Review Tempest Weather
Simple Setup
Super easy setup process. Literally took less than five minutes to connect to home Wi-Fi, create an account and do other config.
Nice to see weather at the house from home or away. Been having the most fun with lightning strike notification. You really get a sense for how fast and how soon thunderstorms are moving toward home.Show lessThat Larry Pearson
Welcome Update
The previous version was functional and clean, but was getting old and stale. The new interface is a welcome update. Not a major change but the color scheme change is welcome. In particular the better selection of widgets now is a nice add. Would be nice to have more customization options (arrangement of data, breaking out of some things on multiple lines versus combining), and a map would be nice, but it’s good to see the app isn’t being ignored. The Tempest system is too cool to not be supported by a well thought out and evolving app.Show lessDasPork
Outstanding!
I’ve owned over a half dozen weather stations from various companies over the years. The Tempest station is by far the easiest to set up and it provides an incredible amount of information making it a superior station. The app is easy to setup and maintain providing quick access to your stations information. A great product with a great app.Show lessMod151
Best investment hands down
Need “local weather”? I’m not talking about a weather service app that retrieved the weather near you from several or more miles away. This app and the components fused together this Tempest weather station gets real “local weather” on your property for far more accurate up to the minute data and weather information than any outside area source. It’s very small footprint and sleek looks fit right into any home.Show lessjgiz1
Pretty nice. Please allow dark mode and better 3rd party integration!
All in all, it’s pretty competent . Keep up the improvements.
I would offer the following in no particular order:
1)PLEASE allow dark mode, or better yet, customizable displays. Since there’s no “base unit” as on competitors units (not knocking it, I actually prefer mobile), why not allow users to at least change color scheme, font size, and order of information?
2)Informative & nice graphing. Would be nice to be able print those graphs with scaling, however. (Without a screenshot).
3)Apparently Tempest sends data to its hub and app very frequently(3 sec), but WeatherFlow servers upload to 3rd parties (Weather Underground,etc.) somewhat less frequently (3-15 minutes based on observations). This often results in my PWS not appearing on WU Wundermap. Are there plans to change this or shall I purchase a third party Meteobridge (extra $160) to work around this shortcoming? Less expensive WX brands don’t seem to suffer from this.Show lessSon of FE
Developer Response
Thanks for your review! Dark mode is coming soon in a new major app update that is currently in beta testing. Appreciate the other feedback and feature requests. We encourage you to browse the feature request topics, cast some votes, and share your own suggestions. Thanks for your contributions! Popular feature requests: https://community.weatherflow.com/c/owners/feature-requests/11/l/latest?order=votesequests/6483Nice device
This Tempest has a lot of promise. The only downside I see currently is that it doesn’t accurately pick up on the amount of lighter rains; otherwise, after three weeks I have found it to be quite accurate. I am sure some firmware modifications will address the rainfall shortcoming.
UPDATE: This week we had a good rain. My Tempest started recording the lightest sprinkles which lasted for a couple of hours before the intensity increased. When the rains were over the next day, I compared the rainfall recorded by the Tempest (1.45 inches) to my standard gauge about 25 feet away (1.40 inches). I’m convinced the difference is the ability of the haptic sensors to pick up the lighter stuff that really doesn’t accumulate in a standard glass gauge. I take back my initial review.Show lessMike ntx
Developer Response
Thanks so much for your review, Mike! Please feel free to reach out to our support team if you're having any trouble. You can also see some info on rain data here: https://help.weatherflow.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408920104475Great Weather System
The Tempest is a great weather system. The hardware and app took about 5 minutes to set up. Once you have everything installed and online, you have instant up to the date weather data coming from the hardware. This data is integrated and processed through Weatherflow's AI to produce hyperlocal weather forcasts that are guarenteed to be more accurate than the publically available forecasts. The only issue that I have is of my own making. Do to siting limitations my wind readings are always low compared to other stations in the area. The app itself is great and all of the data is easily found and tracked.
The app is simple and intuitive. It is very easy to locate the information that you need, and everything is logically layed out. There are even charts that allow you to see semi-historical data. The unit easily connects the Weather Underground and some great third party apps.
The bottom line is if you like or need to know local weather data, the Tempest is a great solution which provides data through an intuitive interfact. I highly reccomend the Tempest.Show lessJohn Ponz
Great hardware but app needs tweaking
The Tempest weather station is great, but you desperately need to add the ability to set a perimeter for weather notifications. Living in Florida, I’m getting bombarded by lighting alerts for distances well further away than I care. I can’t even imagine how bad these are going to get when we get alerts for every storm within a 30 mile radius. I don’t want to turn off the alerts all together, but I will if there’s not an option to set a range.Show lessCCPLady
Enjoying my Tempest so far
Couple requests:
- Would love to see you guys add a dark mode to the app.
- please add your station map to the app as opposed to having to leave the app for the website
- please add a watch app as well as CarPlay. There are currently no good weather apps in CarPlay
- might also be cool to add the ability to report weather observations in case there are weather events that are not captured by the station.Show lessdeepsnowglassywater
Sandy Creek Airport
My old weather station had failed after nearly 15 years with intermittent component failures a constant irritant. I’d been looking for a replacement system, even though we’re not an official weather reporting site for NOAA, to produce local weather for our private aviation operations. We do have such a site about 12 miles from us, but conditions can vary given local topography. Tempest looked like a good fit.
I bought the system and it has turned out to be a perfect fit!
We can obtain weather instantly from such devices as our Alexa, from our phones and even from a linked view on our airport website. The families here now enjoy instant surface barometric pressure, wind reports, temperature, dew point and lightening/rain advisories. Most reassuring the official reporting station 12miles north is alomost always in agreement with our station except for local surface wind and always in agreement on baro pressure.Show lessBarkleysDad
Developer Response
We're so happy to hear this! Thanks for the great review and hope everyone continues to enjoy Tempest!
