I'll be honest: I've never really been one to care about hyper-local weather info, barring those few times a year when snow's a-coming or there's some massive thunderstorm blowing in from the east. But the Netatmo Weather Station – old enough now to be considered venerable, but looked after well enough that it has received an update to support Google Assistant within the past few months – has changed my mind.
It's the data, you see. It's addictive. Watching the numbers from the AAA battery-powered outdoor module is oddly entertaining. Spotting tiny fluctuations in temperature, matching the barometric pressure to those headaches I'm convinced are weather-related rather than down to me staring at a screen all day, even spotting little microclimates by comparing the results from my outdoor module with those from other Weather Station users on the map – it's just neat. Questionably useful, but neat.
