AcuRite Iris (5-in-1) Professional Weather Station with LCD Display and Lightning Detection (01022M)

This is a nice weather monitor the lighting strike indicator works well and has a handy warning tone to get your attention. It’s easy to set up takes a few minutes. After it learns your local weather patterns it’s surprisingly accurate. It’s aesthetically pleasing to the eye sitting out in the open. If I had one negative to say about it maybe a tiny bit bigger display.

It arrived in like new condition without factory box. Still in plastic. Works perfect and nice to see what the weather is really doing at my house. Highly recommend one.

I got this a few months ago. Works ok and I love having it, just wish the lightning sensor worked better. It gets a lot of interference, where it is unable to detect. I’ve relocated the sensor 5 times with same result. Its not near any outside noises like a/c (I live in the country so no interference from neighbors houses). My only guess is that the sound of the rain hitting near it is causing the interference…although it gets interference before and after the rain hits. Also tried new batteries, with same result. Lightning sensor is about 50 feet from the display. The wind/temp sensor is about 200 feet away, and still connects with a strong signal. Aside from this lightning problem, the unit works great…I’m pleased with the purchase.

This is my 4th weather station in 20 years. I use 2 at a time for different places on my property. The last 2 came with a bonus lightening detector. They work like their description states. Tiny spiders get into the outside base and have to be cleared out in order to maintain function. They are durable and fairly accurate. The lightening detector notifies me before I even know storms are in my area. Appreciate the display size and the color change as storms increase in intensity.

Well as you can see in the photo it's got a beautiful display that's hanging on my wall in my kitchen. It's easy to see as long as it's at eye level. Or on the counter. I had it a little too high at one point and I couldn't see anything. So make sure that you're paying attention to where you place it. The outdoor pieces are a good bit away, the connection is no problem. The rain gauge with wind 'thingy' LOL are attached to a PVC pipe and raised on the front of my outbuilding on my land. The temperature gauge with the lightning detection is on my screened in porch. So far? I love this thing. The only thing I have yet to find is where I can change the time from regular time to 24 hour clock... I mean surely it's got to be here somewhere and I just haven't found it. As for accuracy? I only have my phone app to compare it to and it is darn close. My phone app tells what the temperature is downtown, which is a few miles from me. That's one of the reasons I wanted this. Because it's not accurate to where I am. I live in the mountains so I wanted to know what it was outside my house, not downtown. But overall? I am very happy with this

Love this weather center! Works great!!!

Love my weather station !

Update: This thing is a real piece if junk. After two months, and after my return period to Amazon has expired, the display unit failed completely.I was finally able to get it to come back to life by unplugging the power and removing the backup batteries to completely reset it, but then I had to completely reprogram the settings again and lost all of the previous history. I guess I'll have that to look forward to every so often, if I don't just throw the thing in the trash one of these days. DON'T EVEN BOTHER with this piece of junk. What a waste of money!Yet another Update: The reason for the reset is the thing is EXTREMELY sensitive to any electrical noise. Just turning on a light switch or plugging something into the same socket as the wall wart will lock the thing up. To reset it, you have to unplug the wall wart and pull one of each of the two battery sets, then go through the entire tedious setup process again.Initial Review:The user interface is baffling and times out so fast you don't have time to follow the step by step instructions for setting anything up properly. You have to know ahead of time what you need to set, and the procedure for doing so, or else you'll find yourself lost in a maze of options and then the damn thing times out and goes back to display mode. The only good thing about it so far is the temperature and wind speed/direction seem to work okay. The humidity sensor reads way too high all the time and tells me its raining almost all the time. As hard as I've tried to calibrate the barometer it just won't let me. The lightning sensor is extremely sensitive to electrical glitches from simply turning on a light switch.Also, the damn thing requires 14 (yes FOURTEEN) batteries to work properly! 4 for the sensor unit, 4 for the lightning detector, and 6 for the base unit. I tried using the base unit without the "optional" backup batteries and it wouldn't connect to anything. After installing them it worked just fine. What a waste of batteries!Followup: I bought this for my ham radio room and found it's not at all FCC Part 97 compliant. Even at the lowest QRP levels the monitor unit freaks out. I've moved it to my living room at the other end of my house now but that's really inconvenient and not what I bought it for.