Weather stations
I want a weatherstation that can talk to my compuaters. What I call "consumer grade" weather stations usually have proprietary sensors either directly wired or wireless that talk to a base. Sometimes they refer to these as "professional grade" and have a subscription based cloud component.
The bases generally have cool LCD displays and if anything, a serial port to send data in a proprietary format to proprietary software running on a Windows machine.
These companies also sell the sensors independently.
Consumer grade
Individual sensors
* Anemometer: $120
* Rain bucket $75
* Solar radiation: $160
Kestrel makes handheld instruments
Peet Bros Inc. Jim (CG Ret) says "don't" :-)
Rainwise Wireless sensor head + serial/modem computer interface
Wired rain gauge $73
Research grade
Columbia Weather Systems $5000 and up
Global Water Instrumentation ($4000 or so)
Onset sells kits for about $1800 (Onset makes Hobo data loggers).
