George Loves Weather

Have a Better Life By Using Weather Instruments

You are here: Home / Home

La Crosse Technology Wireless Color Forecast Station-La Crosse 308-146 Reviewed

La Crosse Technology Wireless Color Forecast Station
La Crosse Technology Wireless Color Forecast Station

A La Crosse Technology Wireless Color Forecast Station Is a Good Choice For a Beginner

The weather is very interesting to me. The La Crosse Technology wireless color forecast station the model #308-146, would be where I start.

Not all people feel like I do towards the weather. If you have decided that weather instruments and interpreting the weather are now important to you, this is where you want to be.

I am going to go over what the La Crosse 308-146 is all about. Then once we cover that, I will share my opinion of why it would be a good choice to purchase.

Description

This is a lower-priced personal home weather station. As I own other La Crosse products, I will vouch for the quality of their weather instruments. I have found them to be consistently accurate and they work problem-free. Both are good things in my book.

This La Crosse Technology wireless color forecast station has as its main features, just what its title says.

I love the color screen, I love that it is wireless, and I also love it for the forecasting technology that it houses.

The forecast part is my favorite. It will consistently give you a 12-hour ahead look at what it determines to be your upcoming weather.

It uses weather icons to display its forecast. It is never boring and the icons are really cool.Standard Forecast Icons

It is trending towards the forecast, plus the forecast is derived from using the relative humidity in your local location, along with whether the barometric pressure is going up or falling lower.

The station transmits from the TX142THV2 Wireless Outdoor Temperature/Humidity Sensor to the inside your home located display console.

The transmission is the wireless transmission of up to 300 feet between the sensor and the display.

Display

You may look at the picture on the colored forecast display console on the right. As you can see, the screen is colored and it has the following information available to you. It also has three other main areas of information.

It has an area I call the calendar-time-date type of information. It features an atomic clock and the seasonal time changes that are automatic as well.

Then the other two sections have indoor temp and relative humidity and then a section for the outdoor temp and relative humidity.
La Crosse Technology 308-146 Wireless Color Weather Station Display Screen

Dimensions

  • Colored Screen Display Console measures as 5.9″ L x 2.36″ W x 5.90″ H
  • The TX142THV2 Wireless Outdoor Temperature/Humidity Sensor is measured at 1.57″ L x 0.82″ W x 5.11″ H

Manufacturer Support

A great source of information on your La Crosse Technology wireless color forecast station is to go to the La Crosse 308-146 owner’s manual. It can be seen by clicking here???

La Crosse Technology 308-146 Wireless Forecast Weather Station Manual

Features and Pros To Buy

✅ Time and date, it automatically sets for you.
✅ Month, the day of the week, and today’s date
✅Charge devices with USB charging port: Output 1 amp
✅ Hour forecast based on changing barometric pressure
✅ Icons: sunny, partly sunny, cloudy, rainy, stormy
✅ Indoor/Outdoor temperature (°F / °C)

La Crosse Technology 308-146 Atomic Wireless Color Forecast Station

✅ Indoor/Outdoor humidity (%RH)
✅ Maximum records
✅ Index and dew point

How Everything in your La Crosse 308-146 is Powered

  • Display: Comes with the included AC adapter; Also recommended is to back up with 3 “AA” Alkaline battery backup
  • The TX142THV2 Wireless Outdoor Temperature/Humidity Sensor uses 2 “AA” Alkaline Batteries.

Since this sensor is set up outside I always recommend using Lithium batteries for a much longer battery life.

Please know that the batteries must be purchased by you as extra purchases. Batteries are not included in your La Crosse 308-146 weather station purchase.

Cons

The usual downside to this La Crosse residential weather station is that it only offers a very limited number of weather instruments. If you are willing to pay more for a weather station you will get more instruments and data.

❌ Does not have any wind speed sensors (an anemometer)
❌ Doesn’t have a rain gauge
❌ Does not have a wind direction sensor (a weather vane)
❌ Doesn’t connect to the LaCrosse View App
❌ Doesn’t connect to your personal computer for data logging or data storage
❌The display does not have any alerts on it. You can not do alerts for temperature and wind or relative humidity, with it

Consumer Ratings

So in looking at this newer model from La Crosse, it reminds me a whole lot of a long-term good seller that came out a few years ago.

This referred to the wireless color weather station is the s88907 La Crosse Weather Station.

You can read my review on that weather station by going to it here: The La Crosse Wireless Color Forecast Station.

The one thing that definitely has been updated since the S88907 La Crosse weather station was released is the display screen is more extensive and has more features seen on it. I really like the improvements since the S88907 La Crosse came out.

So it is still a great seller for La Crosse but the new improved La Crosse Technology weather station model 308-146 has a new feature that everyone looks for today, it has a USB charging input.

Yes, you can charge your mobile device by plugging it into your new USB wireless weather station.

So the price, with the new improvements is around $5.00 more as of today. This may change, but that is my report for today on the pricing.

The one thing your eye will immediately notice is that the older S88907 model is more vertical (taller) and the new one, the 308-146 is more horizontal (wider).

You can take a look at these two models as I lay them out for you side by side.

&

La Crosse Technology S88907 Vertical Wireless Color Forecast Station with Temperature AlertsLa Crosse Technology S88907 Vertical Wireless Color Forecast Station with Temperature AlertsLa Crosse Technology S88907 Vertical Wireless Color Forecast Station with Temperature AlertsLa Crosse Technology 308-146 Atomic Wireless Color Forecast Station with USB charging portLa Crosse Technology 308-146 Atomic Wireless Color Forecast Station with a USB charging portLa Crosse Technology 308-146 Atomic Wireless Color Forecast Station with a USB charging port

A Guide For Purchasing a Wireless Home Weather Station-Top 10 Problems

Wireless Home Weather Station

Making a Decision on a Wireless Home Weather Station

Back before my personal first purchase of a wireless home weather station, I realized I didn’t know that much about a personal residential weather station.

So I Started With What I Did Know at That Time

  • I knew what a storm front was
  • I knew what a high-pressure system was
  • I knew what a low-pressure system was
  • I was sure that I wanted to buy a wireless home weather station because they looked so neat! Just all the benefits that were presented to me, were really cool.
  • I knew that I liked it when the weather changed, and I liked to keep track of weather forecasts

So with this keen interest in weather, I started my research into a personal residential weather station.

I could have a wireless home weather station at my personal home. This was a starting point for me.

I thoroughly enjoyed checking out all of the bells and whistles that were built into many great selections from industry brands such as La Crosse Scientific Technologies, AcuRite, Davis Instruments, Oregon Scientific Instruments, and Ambient to name a quick handful.

Features of a Weather Station That Caught My Eye

So as I continued with my searching, I saw very clearly that there were definitely features of a wireless home weather station, that all brands were offering.

Wireless Home Weather Station

With this in mind, I started zeroing in on a few of these features that so intrigued me.

Here’s a Short List of My Top 5 Features of a Home Weather Station

  1. The weather station I liked needs an Anemometer
  2. I really liked the colored screen on the display console
  3. I was wiped away by the future weather forecasts that are calculated for you. Most wireless home weather stations provide a 12-hour forecast
  4. I knew for sure that my personal weather station must be wireless for transmission and that if it could use Wi-Fi to use an app that would be even sweeter
  5. I love rain gauges. So I knew a rain gauge was a must-have for me

My searching lasted a while, and during my searches, I became much more comfortable and knowledgeable in understanding what I was looking at.

Over the last 2 years, I have become much more educated and can with ease share with you, how to best look at purchasing a residential weather station.

So without further adieu here’s my Top 10 list of what to look for.

My Top 10 Things To Be Aware Of When Purchasing a Wireless Home Weather Station

In my experiences with buying a color home weather station I have learned quite a bit about the good things, and some of the limitations with picking a good station for myself.

Here is my list of the top 10 things you need to know about buying a weather station. These are not in any order of importance.

You will need to make up your own decision on where your own priorities lie on these items.

    1. The Display screen on your home console is a point where people have varied opinions on what they like. I found out that there really are two options that the bottom line really is important to the buyer. They are is the screen a real color screen? Or is it a black and white screen? Well actually I have found that the screen really isn’t black and white but rather a grey color. La Crosse Weather Station Display ConsoleWhen the backlight is on they are usually an amber color. Many customers prefer colored screens. The screen is really multi-colored, not a colored facing and it only makes the screen look colored. These types of screens, when viewed from the side or at any angles do not look colored at all. They only work when looked at straight on.
    2. The Accuracy of the Sensor Readings is Very Important

Some of the more inexpensive weather stations, sometimes do not have as great a range, nor do they present a long-range accuracy picture for you.

They don’t last very long. The accuracy can get tilted and inaccurate. The range of accuracy is usually supplied by the manufacturer.

Make sure you read customer reviews to see if people have had problems with the sensors remaining accurate over a period of time.

    1. The Backlight and Brightness on the Display Console Early on in my initial research phases, I was quick to realize that the backlight on the display console is a really big deal for most people. The problems apparently are outlined as follows. Most of these units have a power supply cord. Electrically powered. Most are backed up with battery power. The reason for this is that if the display is only powered by batteries, the backlight will only appear if a button is pushed. Then the screen will light up for only 10 seconds. So this allows you to read the screen, but only very quickly. With it being this way (with only battery power) the batteries will not last very long. If the backlight was on all the time the batteries would discharge quickly. So you will need to consider what way matters to you. The other thing is screen brightness. Most units have a very bright, mid-range brightness and dim setting. You may set which works best for you. Some people sleep in the room where their weather station console is set up, so brightness bothers them. Maybe the display may be set up where this brightness will not affect sleep for someone. All the models may be a little different, so be aware.
    2. Anemometers-the Material That They Are Built With and the Cup Size Conversion for Accurate Wind Speed
      As one of the biggies for weather sensors, I thought that having wind speed provided was very important to me.

I also felt that I would like an accurate wind sensor so that I have accurate wind speeds given to me.

I found out that not all anemometers are created equal. Some companies appear to give you a more accurate anemometer than some other ones.

The materials used would be plastic and metal. Each type of material may give you a very different accuracy range.

I checked the wind speed accuracy out closely, making sure I purchased a home weather station with a good anemometer.XXXX

The Actual Physical Size-Do I have Room For this read very carefully the dimensions of the following three things.

Number one is how small or large is the display console? Where am I going to keep this? Does it work well with my room?
Second, I need to know the actual size of the sensor unit, or the two sensor units.
This makes it easier, to effectively mount for the best instrument readings from the weather sensors.
Will I have room to wall mount the console or will I need to find a location where I can set it on the surface? I usually set mine up like a picture, standing up, and then I can angle it to get the best clarity for reading it. Third, where and how would I be able to actually mount this sensor suite or the group of sensors that were included with my residential weather station purchase. This does matter in the sense of I decided I wanted the best weather measurements possible. After a site survey, I would need to decide exactly where I could get the best possible readings from my equipment. I decided on a mounting pole, that I would need to mount my weather station from La Crosse.
Data Logging and Storage of Readings History
Another thing that I needed to learn about was how to store the data that the sensors are providing. I needed to figure out how each unit could store history.

And I guess I needed to answer this and if this was even important to me to have that ability. Some weather stations require extra purchases to actually connect as a bridge to your computer for data storage.

Please see the articles below that write about adding data logging, or connecting tools you can use with some weather stations.

Two such weather stations would be the AcuRite 01512 Pro Color Weather Station
and another station I reviewed was the
Davis Instruments 6250 Vantage Vue Wireless Weather Station

You can read these two reviews, to get an idea of what extra purchases would entail for a price, and you can read about them and what they will do for you.

In answer to this question, there are many different ways that the weather stations will have the ability to communicate with your personal computer.

Does It Have An Atomic Clock or Not
The atomic clock appears to be a big point for people. I would say you need to make sure that it has an atomic clock ability.

The reason for this is that the entire calendar function, you know the Time, Date, Year part of your console readings needs to be set with the world computer set time. Also many have automatic time changes that happen twice a year included.

This will ensure that it is always accurate, plus when the time changes in March and in October, then you are covered. Hassle-Free for you!
Snow Collects in the Rain Gauge Collection Tray

With many weather station owners living colder climate winters it has become increasingly more important than the rain gauge has a good track record on rain/precipitation collection and disposal.

This is very important to keep an accurate recording of rain, snow amounts properly. Any number of things can clog up the collection tray.

Things like, bird poop, flying seeds from local shedding trees, and then maybe also, leaves in the autumn getting stuck in the tray. This would cause it not to work anymore.

Please be aware of you need to keep the rain gauge free from debris, it can become a functioning problem, for the home weather station owner.

    1. How Well Does The Forecaster Program Perform

Many of the weather stations today are offering forecasts that are updated continuously by your weather station.

AcuRite 01512Pro Color Weather Station

The forecasts are calculated by using your local home weather station’s sensor readings to figure out a weather trending pattern for you.

“Fairweather is on the way”, or “It’s going to be raining”.

So you can have your very own weather forecast by looking at your display console and reading the forecaster display section.

These forecasts often use attractive colored weather icons

Forecast Weather Icons
Forecast Weather Icons

to present you with what it thinks you will be experiencing in the next 12 hours.

Basically a local weather forecast for your location.

But how accurate is the forecast program? Many people are very happy with their results however, some people find this offering to be somewhat lacking according to their standards.

These local forecasters use some very colorful icons to highlight the upcoming weather conditions for your locality.

Most of these forecasters use the basic rising and lower barometric pressure, plus wind and temperature changes to give you what should be your 12-18 hour future weather conditions.

This is in a general sense obviously.

Be diligent in your research on the forecaster program you are looking at.

All three main manufactured choices for a home weather station offer the forecaster on their models. AcuRite, La Crosse, and Davis Instruments offer forecasters.

  1. How Well Does the Aspirating Fan Work

Checking out a weather station for the home can bring you another choice you may not be aware of. Many of the 5-in-1 sensor suites offer an aspirating fan with the sensor unit.

This fan is run by solar power and will be telling you it will be keeping the temperature reading at a realistic and accurate temperature reading.

You see, heat will build up in the sensor suite and cause the readings to trend towards reporting to you a false reading.

Not to your surprise, your outdoor temperature readings will transmit to you at inflated readings. Some aspirator fans reportedly work really well. Others, well maybe not?

You will need to decide on your own research, considering this matter.

My Summation on Buying a Residential Weather Station

I believe you can see, that buying a station from the many choices that many companies offer, can be a challenge.

I am sure if you read some of my reviews you will soon start understanding what all of these personal stations have to offer you.

Many of the home weather stations are very similar. Sometimes there are only one or two differences from another offered model.

Weather Interest George Loves Weather

You need to decide for yourself the following things. From this list, if you use the list, you will be successful in tracking down the best choice for you today.

  • You need to decide which company you trust the most for quality and performance
  • You need to figure out a price range you are comfortable with spending at this time
  • you will need to decide where your interest level is right now. I put together a little, simple info-graphic to help you decide where you are.

After you decide on these three things you can easily decide which personal weather station you are most comfortable with at this date.

Good Luck with your research, I sincerely hope that this article may help you out in purchasing your very own home weather station.

Read More About Buying Your Own Weather Station-View Related Posts Below

AcuRite Reviews
These are the detailed reviews of some of the best sellers from the AcuRite people.
La Crosse Reviews
If you are a new fan of weather, La Crosse weather stations would make a great entry place for you

Bluetooth Weather Station La Crosse Scientific Technologies #S87078

Bluetooth Weather Station

To Start the Review of the La Crosse Bluetooth Weather Station

A very unique weather station choice can be yours if you choose the La Crosse S87078 Bluetooth Weather Station.

The weather station has three very different features that make it very attractive to a consumer.

I want to go over these three features with you now.

    • Feature 1  It has a USB Port for charging your I-phone or any mobile device. The charging port is a 1 amp charging port.
    • Feature 2  The Display screen is part of a Bluetooth speaker. This then makes it a Bluetooth weather station. You are able to play music from your mobile device through it.
    • Feature 3 It has a colored trim for the base. The trim is a LED trim that is very bright, colorful, and it is color-coordinated with the weather forecast that is predicted by trend indicators. The Trim LED actually has three settings on it.
      • 1 You can set your own preferred color
      • 2 It can be coordinated with the weather forecast
      • 3 It can be set on a loop of the seven colors and cycled through automatically from one color to the next

      Etc, Etc, Etc.

      How the Two Main Parts Are Powered

      Here are how the power is supplied to your La Crosse weather station with a Bluetooth speaker.

      Bluetooth Weather Station

      The display is powered by the supplied AC adapter. This is the main power source which is then backed up by using 3 “AAA” Alkaline batteries. The batteries are not included but must be purchased extra.

      The other part that needs power is the Thermo-Hygro Sensor. It will take 2 “AA” Alkaline batteries to power it up properly.

      I would recommend these batteries since they are used out of doors, they will need to be lithium batteries for longer life, due to outside weather conditions and temperature differences.

      Dimensions

      The following are for you to size up both the display units as well as the Thermo-Hygro sensor for their real size.

      • The display/Bluetooth speaker is: 4.61″ L x 2.85″ W x 8.33″ H
      • The Thermo-Hygro Sensor is measured at: 1.57″ L x 0.82″ W x 5.12″ H

      Instrument Sensor Ratings

      The display inside will show you all the sensor readings as currently collected. The display has indoor temperature and relative humidity readings that it will give you.

      • It will also display the outside current temperature and relative humidity to you. These outdoor readings are sensed and sent (transmitted up to 300 feet) to the display inside your home.
      • This outdoor sensor is the Thermo-Hygro sensor (part Id TX141TH-BV2) that is included in the La Crosse weather station with Bluetooth speaker purchase.
      • The relative humidity will be measured from 10% to 99%, and the temperatures indoors will be from 32 degrees F to 122 degrees F.
      • The outdoor temperature readings will be from -40 degrees F to 140 degrees F

      Display

      As you move clockwise around the display’s featured information facing you have the Digital calendar information presented as well as both the indoor temp/relative humidity, and the outdoor temp and relative humidity.

      • The facing labels them as IN and OUT, so you will know which readings are from which location.
      • The large reading in the center is the time in whether 12 or 24-hour settings. Thus 12:24 pm or 13:24 for the 24-hour person.
      Display Face of La Crosse S87078 Bluetooth Speaker
      Display Face of La Crosse S87078 Bluetooth Speaker
      • Then we have near the bottom, the 12-hour weather forecast is presented with weather icons and an arrow is shown. The up arrow is pressure is raising (weather is getting better), or down arrow, the pressure is trending downward (bad weather coming) or an arrow points to the right which means the air pressure is holding steady. The weather is holding steady, without any changes as well.

      Pros

      ✅ You get to enjoy the Bluetooth-enabled speaker
      ✅ The dynamic color LCD with forecast icons and temperatures is fun to use
      ✅ It has dual alarms with 3 sound option
      ✅ Includes a USB charge port (the charging cord is not included)
      ✅ It has a color-changing LED trim on the base-stay entertained by the color-changing LED base light you can set to change based on the weather forecast, your choice of color, or a 7 color rotation (loop)
      ✅ The time is accurate as it is an atomic clock
      ✅ Can be used as an alarm clock
      ✅ Is highly functional as a trending weather forecast. It takes a little over 2 weeks to learn your locality, so it can supply you with an accurate weather forecast.

      Cons

      ❌ The display should be plugged into your electrical power source to avoid any interruption in sensor transmission
      ❌ Is not able to be connected to the La Crosse View app
      ❌ Can not be connected to a computer for data logging and storage
      ❌ Does not have a wind sensor
      ❌ Does not have a wind direction sensor
      ❌ Does not have a rain gauge

      In Summary, My Thoughts

      The La Crosse Weather Station with Bluetooth Speaker, model #S87078 is a very simple color wireless weather station.

Still yet from this simplicity, I learned that this is one of only a few Bluetooth weather stations for sale. This has two very hot features that attract people today.

The first is the Bluetooth speaker provides another choice source for winning with your mobility.

The second thing is that mobility is served again by the USB port for charging your mobile phone, i-pad, or other choices of mobility.

Mobility is king today. Keeping that in mind, this is and should be a winning combination, and a great way to introduce some of La Crosse’s best weather station features to the mobile crowd.

This does a good job of that. I like this choice or maybe you could choose from the one other La Crosse selection, which isn’t quite the same thing but does have the weather station USB port change station feature. You can go to either to get the USB charging port feature.

&

La Crosse Technology S87078 Wireless Weather Station w/ Bluetooth Speaker & USB PortLa Crosse Technology S87078 Wireless Weather Station w/ Bluetooth Speaker & USB PortLa Crosse Technology S87078 Wireless Weather Station w/ Bluetooth Speaker & USB PortLa Crosse Technology 308-146 Wireless Color Forecast Station w/ USB charging portLa Crosse Technology 308-146 Wireless Color Forecast Station w/ USB Charging PortLa Crosse Technology 308-146 Wireless Color Forecast Station w/ USB charging port

La Crosse Weather Station With Wind Speed-The La Crosse Technology V21-WTH

La Crosse Weather Station With Wind Speed

Why La Crosse Weather Station With Wind Speed

To start with, I am most interested in a home weather station that is a La Crosse weather station with wind speed. Why is this so?

La Crosse Scientific Technologies Instruments manufactures and presents the consumer with an array of different types of residential weather stations.

These residential home weather stations are made to measure the weather elements as they happen at your home.

La Crosse is probably one of the more popular weather instrument technology companies in the world.

I trust their reliability and I also enjoy their presentation of weather instruments for home observation. Simply said, I just like their weather stations.

Some Great Weather Questions To Ask Yourself

In purchasing a wireless home weather station, you should think about what interests you most about a weather station?

What part of the weather do you find very intriguing? What do you have the most questions about? Is it the wind? The precipitation? Do the temperatures change? Maybe the wind direction?

For me, it’s the wind. The wind is usually a strong indicator of a weather change in your locality.

Weather changes are always happening, they are always different than what you just had. Always updating, and over a period of time, whether it would be months, years or decades many changes will be recorded by meteorologists.

The passing of weather time will give you very similar weather patterns, which can actually help predict future weather conditions, by applying what their history teaches you.

The Wind Measured

So I choose the wind. In the best wireless weather stations with wind speed that you look at, you will always find the wind is measured by an anemometer.

What is an anemometer you ask, great question? I highly recommend you to read the following article I have written, titled What Does an Anemometer Look Like. I posted this article earlier.

La Crosse Weather Station With Wind Speed

The article discusses the history of the anemometer and talks about what the differences are in anemometers.

I have mentioned in previous reviews that the materials that an anemometer is made with can make a difference in its accuracy of it. Whether you are getting an accurate reading should be important to you and your data collection.

Over a period of time, a history of wind speeds will make an interesting history for you to study. You will see which weeks, and months are the windiest.

You will also see the correlation between frontal changes and how violent the wind is during the weather changes you experienced.

Or maybe how bad a rainstorm or snowstorm was as recorded in comparison with the wind speed that came with those changes, and those storms taking place.

Why Choose the La Crosse Technology V21-WTH

I previously reviewed the La Crosse Technology V22-WRTH in this review: La Crosse Color Weather Station-Model V22-WRTH

I was puzzled as to why the two different models. Do you know why would La Crosse have a model V21-WRTH and a V22-WRTH?

I thought maybe one was the same as the previous one but just updated with new technology.

However, in my examination, I find that the Model V22-WRTH is the same as the V21-WRTH except for the V22 has the wind direction added to it.

The wind direction is adding more sophistication to your La Crosse weather station with wind speed. With wind direction comes another, deeper study of the weather.

Maybe you would like to jump up to the added weather data collection by going for purchasing the La Crosse V22-WRTH.

Highlights Of What You Need To Know

So to get the detail about the La Crosse weather station with wind speed, you are invited to read my review of the La Crosse V-22-WRTH by going Here Now.

I will not be covering in complete detail the V-21-WRTH here. I will give you what I find are some limited but essential details for your planned out purchase.

Let’s cover the following area:
Power Requirements

  • the colored display uses the supplied 5.0 Volt 150mA adapter and you will also need to use 3-“AA” batteries. These can be regular alkaline batteries
  • The Thermo-Hygro Sensor (Temperature-Relative Humidity)uses 2-“C cell” batteries. These should be Lithium batteries
  • The Wind Speed Sensor uses 2-“AA”, batteries these should be lithium batteries as well

Dimensions

  • The Indoors Display measures at 6.88” W x 6.37” H x 1.33” D
  • Temperature-Relative humidity sensor(Thermo-Hygro Sensor) is measured as 1.57” W x 5.12” H x 0.79” D
  • TX144W Sensor or the wind sensor is 18.57” H x 7.10” W x 7.10” D

The Thermo-Hygro Sensor updates every 60 seconds, while the wind speed is updated every 58 seconds.

The transmission is a totally wireless transmission between the sensors and the indoor display unit. It is good up to 400 feet. You are able to use the station as a stand-alone at-home weather station or you may add it to the La Crosse View App.

This will make using the weather station as a mobile device. When you are out and about you will be able to view all details from your mobile as well.

Software
Any added sensors may be added by buying them as extras. You may add up to two new Thermo-Hygro Sensors and when you do add them they too may report your sensor information to you on your mobile La Crosse View app.

La Crosse products today are tied in with the La Crosse View app. This app is discussed more in my latest review, La Crosse V40-PRO Weather-a Complete Weather Station Review

You can read all about my Pros and Cons on the La Crosse wireless home weather station (both the V-21-WRTH and the V22-WRTH) by going to the Complete Review of the V22.

This will also give you the features, talk about the wonderful colored display as well, in this review.

In Conclusion

La Crosse Technology V21-WTH Wireless Wi-Fi Weather StationLa Crosse Technology V21-WTH Wireless Wi-Fi Weather StationLa Crosse Technology V21-WTH Wireless Wi-Fi Weather StationOkay so if you are looking for a weather station, that can provide more information and more challenges in understanding your local weather, you will need to look much closer at this residential wireless colored weather station.

I am sure, after reading the detailed review on the La Crosse V22-WRTH, and then just minus the weather vane, that you will decide this would make a super choice, for helping you understand your weather better.

You can have a much-improved life by using weather data to plan out and plan around any good or bad weather coming your way.

This unit is very value-priced by La Crosse and our recommended purchasing site, Amazon. This is a better selection than a simple weather station.

Join all of us Weather Geeks and buy your La Crosse technology color weather station today.

See Today’s Amazon Low price. You will also be getting Amazon’s top-notch customer service with the La Crosse quality.

Read More About Wind Speed Stations – View Related Posts Below

La Crosse Wind Speed Weather Station
A La Crosse wind speed weather station is a good choice for your first purchase of a weather station
La Crosse V40-PRO Weather
The La Crosse V40 Pro Weather station is a complete weather instrument kit.

La Crosse Wind Speed Weather Station-327-1417 Weather Station

la crosse wind speed weather station

This La Crosse Wind Speed Weather Station

This La Crosse wind speed weather station, the La Crosse Technology 327-1417 provides the top things I look for.

The first thing is that I just love being able to capture wind speed. I think most of us are keenly interested in the wind.

Maybe your interest is one of not liking very windy weather. Mine is, I really like it windy.

When it’s windy I find all of the weather readings we look at becoming much more active and interesting.

Also as I studied this model, I believe wholeheartedly that this is a great entry-level wind station for the more interested weather students.

Let’s take a closer look!

la crosse wind speed weather station

Description

This station provides a nice selection for a gift or even a really solid choice for a first-time weather station purchase. A really good first-time weather station for someone.

Here are some reasons I feel that a La Crosse wind speed station is a great choice.

As I see it, this home weather station with wind speed has many top features that you will want on your personal weather station in 2019.

You will be able to get updated wind speed 24 hours a day. When the weather is very windy, many different things can be happening. So you can set up a high wind alert.

If you have things that need to be protected during high winds, like preventing garbage cans from blowing away. Or maybe you have a large tree beside your driveway, maybe you need to move your automobile to protect it.

It could also mean you have some extreme weather approaching where you live. Time to seek shelter.

As you grow in your experience with the weather station with wind speed, you will become more enthralled by the weather changes, and you will pick up on weather patterns.

From this growth, you will probably be able to actually start predicting some weather conditions that will happen. As you do this, you are protecting your property better, as well as your family from any weather that causes harm.

Other Benefits From a Weather Station With Wind Speed

The wind speed is being updated every 30 seconds and history is stored for a rolling 24-hrs at a time.

During your time period of the last day, you will know what your maximum wind speed was and always what the wind is currently. This is much more fun than a simple wireless color weather station. It’s simply more than calendar readings, temperature, and relative humidity.

You will have access to your current temperature 24/7 as well. The screen is a brilliantly and boldly colored screen that shows the featured information in an easily readable fashion.

It provides you with all current calendar information as well as will provide your correct time from the 7 USA time zones that are programmed into its normal operation.

It has wireless transmission at 433MHz. it should be good with reception up to 330 feet away.

Types of Instruments

The type of instruments available for data collection is, a relative humidity sensor, a thermometer, an anemometer, and it also will give you an updated 12-24 hour forecast, using icons to depict the upcoming conditions.

Here is the description of the two sensor units that come included in this La Crosse wind speed weather station.Sensors for the La Crosse 327-1417

Included TX141TH-BCH Temperature and Humidity Sensor:

  • Temperature range: -40°F to 140°F (-40°C to 60°C)
  • Records a humidity range of 10% to 99% RH
  • Every 58 seconds it updates the temperature on your display unit.

and it also uses the TX144W Wind Speed Sensor this wind sensor has a range of reading from 0-111 miles per hour that are recorded and transmitted. This sensor updates itself every 30 seconds during the 24/7 cycle.

Power Requirements

  • The display unit uses the included 5.0 Volt 150mA adapter as a power source. It can be backed up by 3-“AA” batteries
  • The(TX141TH-BCH) is the temperature and relative humidity sensor: it uses two “C-cell” batteries
  • The (TX144W) Wind Sensor uses 2-“AA” batteries

All Batteries are Not Included.

A word to the wise. The batteries for the two outdoor sensors should be Lithium batteries. Lithium batteries provide a much longer shelf life than regular alkaline batteries will.

Dimensions:

  • The display unit is 6.88” W x 6.37” H x 1.33” D
  • The(TX141TH-BCH) Temp-RH Sensor is 1.57” W x 5.12” H x 0.79” D 
  • The (TX144W) wind sensor with the anemometer is 18.57” H x 7.10” W x 7.10” D

Display

The display unit is a nice bright clear colored screen.

This makes it both a colorful addition to your room as well as it makes it much easier to read and see.

It has a high, low, and off switch for lighting. But please note the backlight only works with the unit plugged into your electric power source. It will work manually with batteries only power, by pressing the setting switch.

On the display screen, as we go clockwise around it, you will have the weather forecast depicted with colorful icons. then next you will see a large circle fashioned wind speed (like a dial) is featured on the screen.

This is truly a wind weather station. La Crosse makes a few of these mid-ranged home weather stations with wind speed, where the wind speed is highlighted on the screen.

This is a really good wind speed weather station. A serious contender in the midrange-priced home weather stations,  a value-priced weather station.

Then you will have listed the top wind speed in the last 24 hours. Then we have the “feels like outdoor temperature” listed currently. Then it will show you the indoor temperature, and relative humidity.

As we continue around the clock the last readings shown are the outdoor temperature and the current RH Humidity. Then between 11-12 o’clock is the current time AM/Pm Date and day of the week. Basically all of the updated calendar functions.

The screen is color-coded by colors to separate with your vision, as an example, all outdoor readings are one color as featured.

When you buy this weather station you may also be interested in protecting your sensor unit by buying and enclosing the Temp/RH sensor in this sensor shield.

Protect your equipment from the outdoor elements.
La Crosse Technology 925-1418 Sensor Protection Shield with MountLa Crosse Technology 925-1418 Sensor Protection Shield with MountLa Crosse Technology 925-1418 Sensor Protection Shield with Mount

This is a great add-on item for a La Crosse Sensor wind speed sensor. This protector shield measures 7.00 H x 3.73 W x 3.98 D inches.

It is meant to protect most La Crosse TX sensors. That will include the TX141TH-BCH Temperature and Humidity Sensor also known as a Thermo-hygro sensor.

Here is a list of La Crosse sensors it will work with: TX21 (WS-1517), TX18U, TX6U, TX7U, TX8U (w/o CAP), TX141, TX141-A & B, TX141TH-A & B, TX142TH, TX142THv2, TX143TH, TX19, TX191, TX25U, TX28U-IT, TX29U-IT SERIES (TX29UD-IT, 29UDTH-IT, 29UTH-IT), TX31U-IT (1510/1910 SERIES), TX37U-IT, TX38U-IT, TX39U-IT, TX40U-IT, TX45UTH-IT, TX45U-IT, TX50U-IT, TX60U-IT, TX62 SERIES, TX70U-IT, TX71U-IT

It comes with 4 metal mounting screws to mount to most flat surfaces whether vertical or horizontal surfaces.

Pros For La Crosse Wind Speed Weather Station

✅ Automatically resetting for Daylight savings
✅ It uses dynamic color forecast icons
✅ Has atomic time automatically updated for daylight saving time. It comes with an (on/off option)
✅ You can set up temperature, humidity & wind alerts
✅ It provides current and top wind speed views with the history provided
✅ It also supports adding up to 2 additional Thermo-hygro sensors (tx141th-bch sold separately)
✅ Temperature readings can be displayed in either Fahrenheit or Celsius degrees
✅ High history for wind records (1 hour (default) 24 Hours, 7 days, 1 Month, one year) are provided
✅ It is equipped with seven US time zone settings (Atlantic to Hawaiian)
✅ It has weather trending arrows on the Forecast area of the display. This will tell you, your weather is trending towards a sunny day, etc.

Cons

❌ Like most colored screens the display will need to be placed more straight on towards where you are going to be. This will ensure a much better view of the displayed readings
❌ It doesn’t come with the ability to be hooked up to any sharing apps. I guess you could say, not connectable to online or mobile devices
❌ The display must be plugged in to have the backlight on at night. If it is only on battery power to see the screen you must use the backlight button, it will then come on for 10 seconds and then go back off
❌ The La Crosse wind speed weather station does not provide you with wind direction

Consumer Ratings

La Crosse Technology 327-1417 Color Wind Speed Weather StationLa Crosse Technology 327-1417 Color Wind Speed Weather StationLa Crosse Technology 327-1417 Color Wind Speed Weather StationAs I wrote this review about a wind speed weather station, I realized a few things I would like to share.

The first thing is that I thought that wind speed and wind direction are cornerstones of weather forecasts and weather changes.

You will not be that aware of this at first but as you use this La Crosse weather station with wind speed, you will soon know these two things to be true.

While this La Crosse wind speed weather station does not provide wind direction for you. Not to worry, you will pick up on wind direction patterns in your locality.

Keeping these things in mind made me realize why a home wind speed weather station has a place in the homes of many people.

This model from La Crosse the 327-1417 is perfectly priced for the consumer as I figured in the reliability and accuracy of the weather readings.

The quality is there for many years of use. So what do you have?

You have many really cool features presented to you in a wireless colored home weather station. You can set it up at your home, and you can enjoy and put to good use all of the weather data it is presenting to you 24/7.

You can have a safer, and better planned out life using your very own home weather station. A great purchase at a great price.