Luxury Housing Trends & Home Improvement Ideas

Want to know how cold it is outside before actually venturing out of the house? Of course, you do. Now you could log onto the computer and check, or you could get one of those old-fashioned thermometers that hang on a wall with a little wire drilled through the window frame to a sensor on the outside of the house. Or you could get a complete in-house weather station and plant it in the kitchen or other frequently visited room. One example is Oregon Scientific’s Weather Now station, which updates its forecasts with real-time weather data and storm warnings every two minutes. It uses Microsoft’s FM-based MSN Direct service, so you don’t have to worry about hooking up a sensor to anything. The cost? $200.

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