The Auriol weather station or temperature station as it is also known, is a digital thermometer for measuring temperature indoors and out. It has a really nice looking interface, which is easy to use. It comes with many features which I will outline here.
On the actual display itself it has several features.
- Outdoor temp display in Celsius or Fahrenheit
- A maximum and minimum temperature values for outside.
- A temperature trend display
- Reception indicator/bar
- Battery power bar for outdoor sensor.
- Indoor temp display in Celsius or Fahrenheit
- A maximum and minimum temperature values for inside.
- Temperature trend display
- Battery power display for temperature station
- Shows the time in 12 hour or 24 hour mode, hours and minutes displayed and a snooze feature.
- It has two different alarms, a time signal indicator, seconds display and summer time reading.
- It also shows the date with the day, month and day of the week.
The weather station is an updated version of your regular thermometer, as we progress in life technology gets better and better. Our first weather stations were the old thermometers, that used the mercury in the glass tube, but with the advancement of science, we come to gadgets like this Auriol weather station.
They are great to use, really cheap to buy in this day when gadgets are getting smaller and smaller.
Because its a digital product, they tend to be a lot more accurate than the old types of thermometers. In the old days if you wanted to read the temperature, it could take a while for the mercury to rise up and down the tube, but with a digital device the readings are instant.
This device can be really useful in the winter, for example if the temperature starts to drop you can check your station, and plan ahead. You could put your car in the garage, if you notice the temperature dropping, or you could put some salt down on your drive in anticipation of the coming ice. If you are elderly then you will know that it will most probably be very icy in the morning, so you should take care.
Have you watched the weather on your television or read the forecast on your computer, but it never really gives you exactly what’s happening outside your door. This could be because the actual weather station could be miles away from where you actually live, so it can never give an exact reading of your temperature right outside your house.
With this little gadget you can get instant readings inside and outside your house, and if it gets to warm inside, you can easily adjust your heating and conserve energy. The beauty of this station also is the fact that it is a wireless device, so you can take it out to your garden, and get a true reading away from your house, because the range is 30 metres.
If you are interested in the weather and devices like the weather station you can start upgrading and buying many different products. There is a whole world of different products to monitor the weather, for the beginner up to the experienced person. You can start of with thermometers, but maybe you would like to monitor rain fall, this is where you can look at rain gauges.
For the more advanced you can get complete weather stations which you can add all the information on to your computer, these are called weather station software, and they monitor everything from rainfall, to temperature, to humidity.
On a final note, the Auriol weather station is a good little product that might get you interested to look at other products in the weather range, if that is what you intend to do.