MODERATORS: please don't move this thread to WU section. The purpose of this thread is not to discuss WU, but rather to inform would be buyers what is most popular going by what shows up on WU. Thanks!
I took a data export of the Weather Underground weather stations for Florida. The balance of different brands (types) might be a good indicator of other locations.
I did this twice this year. June 19 and August 10.
Here are the results. I have the data in Excel and I created custom formulas to tabulate the following.
(Jump to this post for latest numbers (Oct 2018):
https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=34900.msg361260#msg361260)
June 19, 2018 and August 10, 2018
WS-2902 348 419
VP2 780
546 778
Updated: error in previous formulaAmbient 1195 1253
Davis 833 827
AcuRite 1368 1365
Oregon 24 23
LaCrosse 270 275
Netatmo 26 27
WeatherFlow 38 41
* If you have an Acurite station please update your station type in Weather Underground so that we can start to differentiate Acurite by model. This is a newly offered WU Station setting option. See this link for details. https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=35425.0I could easily add to the tabulation all others. Like Rainwise or a specific model (if so listed with WU). I could create a custom list for the whole US. That would be much more data to extract and I tried a few times and Weather Underground keeps crashing and not producing the data. I might try again some other time.
I find it interesting. Looks like the Ambient Weather WS-2902 has become a hot item. I'm impressed with it.
It was also interesting to see so may VP2s go offline in about 2 months. UPDATE: there was an error in previous formula, practically no change happened to VP2 (just -2) A nearby neighbor of mine just this summer took down his ancient VP2 (had been reporting since like 2006) and replaced it with a WS-2902. I haven't talked to him to know exactly why (I've never spoken to him/her...I just noticed the switch). But his unit did have some issues this past year with not reporting rain and lots of on and off Internet time (maybe computer related - was running Cumulus).
Notes: If anyone is curious here is how I did it. I copy pasted the list of weather stations from the entire state right from WU website (it is where you read about personal weather stations and which one to buy). Takes a few minutes to generate the list. Then I paste the list into Excel. Then I add some columns. One column for each type of device I'm looking to tally. Then I fill that new column with the following formula to enter in a 1 or a 0 depending if my search string matches that row. When I'm done at the bottom of the column I just add all the 1's for the entire column. Since each column represents a given search string I label it so. Here is the example formula: =IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("ws-2902", D4518)), 1, 0)