WeatherFX 5 Day Weather Forecaster 950005 By Bushnell

Many products in the market have already succeeded in forecasting the weather on a day-to-day basis. But what does a person do when he needs to plan for an outdoor activity several days away? Outdoor events planners know the importance of making backup plans, and these backup plans usually cannot be organized in a matter of hours. This is where the Bushnell 950005 WeatherFX 5 Day Weather Forecaster comes in. It is the only 5-day weather forecaster available in the market at present time, and it will serve the purpose of preparing you several days in advance.

The product comes with alerts, including those for severe weather, and the forecast can include data for up to 150 cities, provided by AccuWeather, considered to be the most accurate weather service. The product requires no installation and no subscriptions. As such you can confidently plan your outdoor events with no fear of the unknown!

Product Specifications and Features:

- It forecasts the weather for up to 5 days;

- It comes with a color-changing backlight that can show you temperatures at a quick glance;

- It comes with 25 character alert messages, as well as warnings for severe weather conditions;

- It provides forecast data for 150 cities based on AccuWeather;

- It comes with a 4 x 4 inch LCD screen;

- Its dimensions are 5.5 x 1 x 5.5 inches and weighs 3.2 pounds;

- It operates on 4 AAA batteries.

WeatherFX 5 Day Weather Forecaster 950005 By Bushnell Review:

The customers who have bought the product gave it a rating of 3.6 stars. They enjoyed being able to learn what the weather would be like in advance without needing to check the news or the Internet to check the weather. It reportedly had a nice display layout that did not look too cluttered despite the many details it showed. Another user enjoyed how the device downloaded all the weather forecasts for the 150 cities in one go, allowing the user to check the different locations at once. It would apparently download the information from a pager network, and not through the Internet, and did not need a PC. For the affordable price, it was considered a good value for money, but one reviewer commented that he would not pay $100 for it. Other users enjoyed the changing colors of its backlight based on the change in temperature.

However, many reviewers complained about the weather information that it gave not being accurate, with one user pinpointing the problem to its not being up-to-date. The device was found to download data from AccuWeather once every 24 hours, and not the every 15 minutes that the reviewers expected, making some of the weather information subject to changing conditions. Many users checked the temperature versus the actual, and it was almost always off by about 5 degrees, which they attributed to its not being updated in real-time. Still, the product is deemed a wonderful tool for forecasting weather 5-days at a time, and these same reviewers would still recommend the product as a valuable resource. Most of them just have separate temperatures used in real-time.