If you're a WeatherFlow user, definitely subscribe to their forums and 
check in there occasionally.  The whole history of how the units evolved 
and info on what their weak/strong points are is located there, as is help 
and info from their support and engineering and beta tester folks (past 
beta tester here...)

FWIW - I found rain (for me near Seattle) hopelessly inaccurate, but the 
other sensors lined up ok with my VP2 and Ecowitt and roll-my-own sensor 
gear.   Watch for your Tempest reading high on hot calm days as the case 
heats up in the sun and holds that heat after the sun goes down.    I 
personally kinda liked the old Air (in the shade for temp+hum) and Sky (in 
the sun for wind+rain) setup better.

I would disagree with the comment about "silence politics".   They've 
proven to be rather open from what I've seen since the original Air+Sky 
were in beta, but yes it would be nice to know what (and if, and how much) 
they're tuning, as many people including me have asked.   We also have 
asked for a long time to have more control on tunings being on/off as well.

I saw one item in a public forum saying they have over 30,000 units online, 
so it'll be interesting to watch if their support structure and 
Internet-based architecture scales up.  I know there are many many happy 
users even with the known issues with the gear itself (inaccurate rain, no 
long-awaited AA-backed power booster available yet to get sites through the 
dark winter).  

They seem to have a lot of hardware failures but hopefully that's growing 
pains. You only hear the "mine is broken" complaints and not the huge "yup 
still works" of course.  Their support is great at working with the users 
to debug and replace questionable gear as things appear. At a minimum, 
they're overtly trying hard which is a big plus for me vs. dealing with 
most other companies.

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