Well I was planning to buy a minimum/maximum thermometer, to keep track of the temperature in my greenhouse this Winter. They aren’t so easy to find any more. I finally found a circular style one and was about to buy it, when I decided to get something way cooler as well as more useful; my very own Wireless Forecast Station.
It has a lot of useful and interesting functions. I call it Wilson the Weatherman, because there is a picture of a guy on it, dressed appropriately for the weather. Let’s hope he’s right! All this for under $40. Not much more than I was going to pay for a boring thermometer that wouldn’t even tell me what time the minimum temperature was.
Features
- Wireless sensor
- Indoor/Outdoor temperature
- Indoor humidity
- Atomic clock, with alarm and date
- Weatherman forecast icon, based on barometric pressure
- Minimum/Maximum Temperature for indoors and outdoors, with time and date stamp
- Minimum/Maximum humidity
- Optional extra wireless sensors. Can have up to three.
- Celcius or Farenheit
The list goes on. Now I can start reporting to you how my greenhouse is performing. It won’t be too interesting yet, as our overnight lows are still in the 50s. I just got the one wireless sensor. I will put the station in the greenhouse and the sensor outside. Hopefully the greenhouse won’t get below 14°F, because that is as low as it goes. The outside sensor goes down to -21.8°F. We never get anywhere near that cold.
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I just bought one of these yeaterday. It’s pretty cool. Another thing for greenhouses you may like that is avalible for this unit is called the tx25u-it wireless thermometer with 6 ft probe to monitor soil temperature. Seeds require a minimum of 50 degress air temperature, And for soil temperature 70 degrees. The included sensor will set for channel 1. But the extra sensor can use 2 for the other air temperature, and 3 for soil temperature.
Thanks for that great tip, Matt.