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Inside temperature has strong influence on reading for outside
I like everything about the thermometer except its most important feature: the outside temperature is too strongly influenced by the inside temperature.
Ok, so I have it installed at my place in the mountains where the difference at night on the inside/outside termperatures can be forty degrees or more. Many mornings I check this thermometer with two other outside thermometers and find the other two may read, for example, 15 degrees and this one will read 35 degrees. It will be 60 degrees inside.
My window is double-paned, but that still does not insulate sufficiently to produce unreliable outside readings.
When not window-mounted and placed by other thermometers, the readings are acceptable and consistent.
July 2006 · Patio Lawn and Garden