Tempest Weather System Review

We tested the Tempest by WeatherFlow in 2021, and it stood out as one of those products that could change how I looked at the weather around my house. Just like once everyone started getting robotic vacuums, it’s now a standard and nobody actually remembers how to vacuum their house anymore, the Tempest will now change your process.

At its most basic, the Tempest is a weather station for your home. It sounds rather simple, but this is a device which will constantly read and monitor the temperature of wherever you place it.

Who am I kidding? It monitors more than just the temperature, it measures the wind, the UV, how much it rained and basically everything. What impressed me was seeing measurements from my own yard instead of relying only on a general forecast for the whole town.

But that’s where the story starts. I never thought of this before, but I live in a rather large town.  It’s maybe 7 miles wide by about 5 miles across. So when I’m asking for the weather it’s kind of a generalization across the town. Maybe my block is more or less accurate compared to the generalized reading of the town. Maybe I have more trees blocking the wind and therefore that some sort of factor that I don’t understand or is not taken into account.

This made me compare the Tempest’s readings with the weather app I had been using. If you see in the screenshot that I took a photo of the standard weather app as compared to the tempest. In this example, it was only 1° but I did find on more than one occasion it could be a variable almost 3 to 5°. At that point, it’s starting to make a bit of a difference.

In addition, I absolutely love that I can get an exact measurement of how much rain, wind etc. for the past day.  I admit that I geek out when I see that a hurricane came to town and I get pissed when I have no idea how bad the wind was.

All of this data is easily accessible so if you really wanna go crazy, like my husband loves to do, you could even export the data and do whatever calculations in the world you need to do in terms of comparing the UV outside to something else in the world.

Setup and Smart-Home Connections

I also loved the fact that this was one of the fastest setup devices I’d tried at the time. And no exaggeration I have this thing running in about four minutes, and I am not a technical person.  I’m barely getting my toaster functionally running.

In fact, I had this connected to Alexa and Google within another three minutes which made it even easier to ask Alexa for the local reading.

What Stood Out

This was one of my favorite gadgets that came in for review because it changed how I looked at the difference between town-wide weather and the conditions at my own house. Features, integrations and availability may have changed since we tested it in 2021. The original listing was on Amazon in 2021.