Forecast the weather – without any gadgets!

If you’re like us, you’ll probably have weather widgets on your phone, on your PC desktop and maybe even your own personal weather station keeping you permanently updated in all matters meteorological.

If you’re like us, you’ll probably have weather widgets on your phone, on your PC desktop and maybe even your own personal weather station keeping you permanently updated in all matters meteorological.
Bruce Springsteen’s “go-cart Mozart” may have been checkin’ out the weather charts see if it was safe outside, but these days meteorological matters can be consulted speedier with Oregon’s new Helios Solar Weather Station.
Their new weather gizmo comes with a built-in solar panel to extend the battery life, and lets you monitor the current temperature and humidity in up to 3 locations around your home.
Being British, the WireFresh crew take an unnatural, nay perversely, keen interest in all matters meteorological, and despite having constantly updating weather gizmos and widgets galore on our desktops and mobiles, we just can’t get enough of a weather-related fix.

Thanks to desk-based weather stations like the Oregon Scientific Wireless Easy Weather System Pro (which we reviewed on urban75 back in 2006), we can already check out the hot cumulus action occurring in our ‘hood, with an external sensor transmitting the isobar activity from outside our window.
Much as we’ve enjoyed using the Easy Weather System (and loudly commenting on current temperature trends to disinterested passers by), it has to be said that its two-tone plasticky looks are beginning to look displeasingly out of date.
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