Radio Shack Weather Radio - Manual (Page 18)

18 Operation
READING THE WEATHER
FORECAST DISPLAY
Your weather station is designed to forecast
the weather conditions, from 12–24 hours in
advance, for an area within 20–30 miles of
where you installed it. The weather station
updates its forecast once every 15 minutes
(based on the barometric pressure readings
stored in its memory) and displays the fore-
cast using easy-to-read symbols.
Notes:
• Allow at least 24 hours after you connect
power for the weather station to store
barometric pressure data in memory
and display an accurate weather fore-
cast.
• If you move the weather station from
one altitude to another, allow at least 24
hours for the weather station to store
barometric pressure data at the new alti-
tude. Otherwise, the forecast it provides
will not be within normal accuracy levels.
General Weather Symbols
Note: you can also view the weather fore-
cast from the thermo/hygro/baro sensor.
USING THE BAROMETRIC
PRESSURE WINDOW
Setting/Viewing the Barometric
Display Units
The weather station samples the barometric
pressure every 15 minutes. You can set it to
display the current barometric pressure in
millimeters of mercury (mm Hg), inches of
mercury (in Hg), millibars (mb), or hecto-
pascals (hPa). To set the monitor to display
the desired pressure units, press
BARO
then repeatedly press UNIT until the desired
unit appears.
You can also display the pressure reading
for a particular hour within the past 24 hours.
Press
BARO and repeatedly press (or
hold down) or to the desired time.
For example, if you want to display the baro-
metric pressure reading for half a day ago,
repeatedly press
or until
² ² ² ²
appears.
Repeatedly press mb/hPa/inHg on the ther-
mo/hygro/baro sensor to toggle between
viewing the pressure in mb/hPa and in Hg.
Repeatedly press
°C/°F to toggle between
viewing the indoor temperature in Celsius or
Fahrenheit.
Note: The monitor displays the pressure his-
tory for the past 24 hours in a six-column bar
chart.
Condition Symbol
Sunny
Slightly
Cloudy
Cloudy
Rainy