Occasionally, we will have special discounted items resulting from unwanted returns which may only have worn packaging. These would be clearly marked. Again, all products we sell are warrantied!

With us, you get a seller that knows the products and how they work. Here you'll get the help you need with pre-sale questions, pre-sales advice, the sharing of personal experiences with the units, and get advice on setup and configuration including options. And what's more rare in these customer service challenged days we seem to live in now:

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  We communicate in many foreign languages via email but when you call YOU DO NOT NEED TO "PRESS 1" FOR ENGLISH!

  We offer a 30-Day No Hassle Return Policy and No Restocking Fees on most items (only those with free or heavily discounted, nominal shipping or international and/or expedited shipments may have restocking fees). If you are not satisfied with your purchase, call or email for a Return Merchandise Authorization # (RMA), then simply return it to us in original packaging with your RMA#. For inquiries, help, or customer service:

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How Do I Choose a Weather Station?

There are so many different ones to choose from at so many different prices, it might seem a daunting task to pick the right one for you by yourself. That's why we answer our phones and emails! So, don't hesitate to call or write when you need help. For you do-it-yourselfer'ers, here's a quick guide to selecting a Weather Station in any price range:
• You only get three things from a scientific instrument: Reliability, Features & Accuracy. The more you spend, the more you get.
• Decide which feautures are most important to you, i.e. rain, wind, wind chill, outdoor humidity.
• If you are looking for a full featured weather station, stick to High Precision Stations & Professional Stations.
• If you are looking for a limited temp only or outdoor temp and humidity station, look under Temperature Stations
• Write down the maximum you want to spend.
• If you want an accurate, long range wireless, interference free, durable station, you must choose from High Precision.
• If you choose from any other category, do not be surprised if wind and humidity report low or if temps and humidity vary a bit more than you might like.
• High precision stations DO NOT have atomic clocks. They have manual set, digital clocks for time stamping of data.
• Do you need a computer interface with software. If so, most Pro Stations have this ability as an option. Temp stations do not. La Crosse only comes stock with serial port connectivity, except with their new WS-550 which is USB. Honeywell is USB. Davis has USB & Serial (opt).
• Do you want a regular backlight, EL backlight or the red luminescent back light? Or is no backlight OK? All Pro and High Precision stations are back lit one way or another. If you want an "always-on" display, choose from Honeywell, OSI WMR200, La Crosse WS-550 and all high precision stations. RainWise is the only LED console that can be seen from across a large room from any angle.
• Almost all the units come with a one year warranty. RainWise comes with a 5 year warranty on its solar panel and battery; 2 years on everything else. If the amount you are spending is a disposable amount in your mind, warranty is not an issue. If this is a lot of money to you, warranty should be a big issue.
• MADE IN THE USA? Only Davis, RainWise, Kestrel, Capricorn & Orion. All others including Honeywell are made in China predominantly. Some Germany, France & Canada for a few items.
• Are you shopping for value which is the most features for the dollar, or are you shopping for the highest quality and accuracy in a product? We have a wireless, high precision rain bucket from RainWise that is $200.00 in and of itself. So, what kind of quality and accuracy are you getting when you spend $99.00 for an entire weather staiton with wind, rain, atomic clock, temps, humidity, barometer and forecast?
• Will you maybe enjoy expanding your system with more air, soil or water temperature probes? Soil moisture or leaf wetness sensors? Solar Radiation and/or UV sensors? Home automation like fans, motorized shutters, automatic sprinkler or irrigation control? Make sure the system you choose is one that will accomodate your current and future needs. Most La Crosse pro stations and the RainWise MKIII are closed systems; not expandable. Most Honeywell, Oregon Scientific and all Davis are epxandable.
• Wired or Wireless? Not much of an issue anymore unless you live near high tension power lines. But atmospheric bounces, nearby radio or TV broadcast antennas, cell phone towers/repeaters, emergency services departments, hospitals, military bases or SETI sites can cause electromagnetic, electrostatic and/or RF generated interference(s). All units running a 433mhz or lower are much more susceptible to interference that are the relatively impervious Davis, RainWise, Capricorn & Orion systems with their combination of power and frequency. Davis' 1000ft/300m range and its 900-915mhz frequency hopping technology and the RainWise 2.4ghz systems have not encountered interference issues ever with us! In our experience, a cable connection may be necessary if you are planning to use a 433mhz device in an interference prone area. But cabled systems seem to be more suscetible to lightning induced interference. So, unless you are forced to, GO WIRELESS!
• Will it drive you nuts if you are experiencing 40mph winds outside but your non-Davis, non-RainWise station says 28mph outside? We hear this as a common complaint, that is, the wind speed reported is SUBSTANTIALLY lower in lower priced stations. And from our personal experience, our opinion is that the customer complaints are valid. How can this be when the less expensive units claim + or - 3% or better? What if the specs were true but were based on a less than accurate, power saving methodology? What if the + or - spec is based on that methodology's performance instead of comparing to the "real" wind outside? If that will not drive you nuts, then you can get a wonderful, full featured weather station by any of our manufacturers at any price level. No joke. But if variances from reality will drive you nuts, please choose a high precision station!
• If your weather station is for business, government, public or private safety or investment (i.e. wind generator), please choose a high precision station. If you are going to be basing critical decisions on the data, please choose accordingly.
• Some folks are quite concerned with the maximum wind velocity that can be captured by their weather station. Generally, this issue is moot. Because when the wind is sustained at 80mph with Gusts to 120mph+, debris begins flying. Serious debris. Your Davis or RainWise could measure up to 150+. but realistically, high speed debris will contact and destroy the sensor between 100-130mph max. The Capricorn system has a steel, high performance anemometer opton to help resist debris field damages, but at some point, as we've seen in Tornados and Hurricanes, nothing survives in one piece. An ultrasonic Orion would be the most likely to survive. but at 100mph+, flying homes, RVs, and cows can ruin anything.
• If you want evaporation rate: Davis. If you want UV: see many Oregon Scientific, one Honeywell (TE923) and all Davis. If you want a big, easy to read screen, see the La Crosse WS-8035, Honeywell TE821W, Oregon Sci WMR968 & WMR200, Davis and the exceptionally easy to read RainWise MK-III systems.
• If you want a great looking, compact station: Oregon Sci WMR90A, La Crosse WS-7014 in Cherry Wood or the WS-2315 AL or WS-2315CH or WS-2315OAK. Best wind and temp station under $100: Honeywell TE852.
• For Heat Index, see the La Crosse WS-9033TDC, WMR90A, WMR200 or Davis Vantage Pro2.
• If you were thinking about a NOAA emergency radio and a weather station, get the Honeywell TN924W with built-in NOAA S.A.M.E. radio. A complete home alert weather center.

If all we've done is confuse you, pick up the phone or send us an email. We're here to help and sometimes it's just easier when we talk or write directly to one another!


Why Does WeatherBuffs.com
Carry Clocks?

We get asked this question once a day... at least!

When we began offerring digital weather stations, the first manufacturer we became close with had atomic clocks built into nearly all of their weather stations. This provided a heck of a data logging advantage as the date and time of the weather events being captured and stored was accurately time and date stamped. It also beat the Dickens out of dialing "P-O-P-C-O-R-N" whenever one of our 4 girls blew the circuit breakers with their nuclear blow dryers for their hair. This happened almost every morning for the years known as "adolescence."

In the meantime, our rep at one of the larger manufacturers kept egging us on to carry his digital and analog atomic clocks, some of which had wireless outdoor temp, humidity and weather forecast. Others they offered were simple yet very attractive and functional atomic analog wall clocks. We gave it a try finally and a funny thing happened. We really liked the product... personally and professionally. We began using the clocks in our home.

A very close knit relationship has always been enjoyed by the two genres: Ms. Weather and Father Time. For a forever time, nautical devices have been seen in triads: Barometer, Thermometer/Hygrometer, and Clock. To this day, the analog trios are still very much in demand as most are not only precision devices, they are generally crafted with great style, elegance and rigor.

As soon as we offered the first atomic clocks for sale at WeatherBuffs.com, they were a huge hit with folks shopping for weather stations. Now, with 40% of our annual business in clocks alone, we're finding that people interested in buying clocks seem to like weather stations!


Once we had stocked all the atomics we wanted to carry from La Crosse and Acu-Rite, the non-atomic, wonderfully crafted clocks of Howard Miller, Infinity and River City just were a natural evolution in our product line. And we've just added a new line of incredibly crafted and wonderfully fashionable Indoor/Outdoor Thermometer and Clocks by MetalWorks and StoneWorks. Like so many we carry, these models are just plain remarkable!

And with the addition of Howard Miller to accentuate our wondrous offerrings from River City and Infinity, we just had to create a new category called, "Exquisite Clocks." We've added larger pictures to these listings that may challenge your monitor's ability to display them. But even if you have to scroll a bit or wait a tad longer for the page to load, you won't regret the slight inconvenience when you see these incredible pieces of art in as life-like a manner as is possible electronically! When you consider these clocks, think of them not as a purchase but rather as a new part of your life from this point forth. Because that is what they will be: indisposable, irreplaceable, imaginative and inspiring works that you'll absolutely love to see each and every day.


Why do we carry clocks? Because we've found some of the world's most remarkable, fashionable and functional clocks and we just absolutely think they're wonderful.

Thanks for asking!

Joe Amadeo
President

P.S. Did you see the jaw-dropping Waterfall Floor Clock by Howard Miller? It's the model #HM-615-052.. If you thought floor clocks weren't ever in your future, check this one out. But don't let the wife see it unless you're prepared to BUY IT NOW! Includes rocks. You just add water!