5 of the best weather forecasting gadgets

Home / News / 5 of the best weather forecasting gadgets

Suunto Core All Black

If you’re planning on scaling a remote mountain and want to stay dry, do it with this Suunto watch. It will alert you to rain using a built-in barometer and storm warning alarm. Also a digital thermometer and weather trend indicators mean you never need sit through a weather report again. And the altimeter, compass and sunrise indicator should make sure you don’t get too lost when running for cover.

Oregon Full Wireless Weather Station

£190 weather-station.com

After Michael Fish predicted sun the day before a hurricane, we turned to our own prediction gear. This desktop station attaches to a host of add-on sensors that provide temperature, humidity, wind, rain, pressure and even UV measurements. Meaning you’ll need a better excuse than the weather to cancel that potentially awkward family BBQ.

Weather HD app

£0.99 itunes.com

Weather icons are boring, in spite of weather being an epic, awe-inspiring declaration of nature’s mood. Weather HD captures nature’s astounding climactic changes with beautiful HD video. This iOS app pioneers the new way weather should be shown.

Met Office widget

£free metoffice.gov

The nation’s meteorological service can be fed in as much or little detail as you like, straight to your desktop. Three full forecasts are updated daily for an accurate prediction of temperature, wind, rain, UV and more. A weather nerd’s dream.

Moie’ Fog-Free Shower Mirror and Weather Station

US$40 (£25) amazon.com

First thing in the morning when looking at yourself in the mirror, wouldn’t it be nice to be filled with something other than the joy of looking at your own great face? The 7in Moie’ mirror does exactly that by filling you with weather information from a wireless sensor that can be placed up to 100m away. And because it’s fog-free, you can see your brilliant face even more clearly.

Also

Best movie merchandise

About

Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website. Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.