# Nearby Rain Alerts **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Requests\ **Tags:** tempest\ **Created:** [April 27, 2023, 10:27pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/nearby-rain-alerts/20749 "2023-04-27T22:27:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![parkernathan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/parkernathan/32/17573_2.png) [@parkernathan](https://community.tempest.earth/u/parkernathan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2023, 10:27pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/nearby-rain-alerts/20749/1 "2023-04-27T22:27:16Z")
It would be neat if there was a feature in the Tempest app where if it’s raining at a nearby Tempest station, we’d get a “rain nearby” alert. Those might be more accurate than some of the other “rain approaching” alerts out there (like DarkSky). ---
**Author:** ![tweatherman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@tweatherman1](https://community.tempest.earth/u/tweatherman1)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2023, 1:29am UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/nearby-rain-alerts/20749/2 "2023-04-28T01:29:23Z")
Nice suggestion with the abilities to be able to add wind threshold alarm from surrounding station(s). tweatherman ---
**Author:** ![parkernathan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/parkernathan/32/17573_2.png) [@parkernathan](https://community.tempest.earth/u/parkernathan)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2023, 10:05pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/nearby-rain-alerts/20749/3 "2023-04-28T22:05:11Z")
That would be a lot of fun as well! ---
**Author:** ![anthony1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@anthony1](https://community.tempest.earth/u/anthony1)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 12:16pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/nearby-rain-alerts/20749/4 "2023-05-12T12:16:27Z")
Isn’t this the point of the Tempest One product? ---
**Author:** ![parkernathan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/parkernathan/32/17573_2.png) [@parkernathan](https://community.tempest.earth/u/parkernathan)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 9:32pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/nearby-rain-alerts/20749/5 "2023-05-12T21:32:51Z")
There are two issues with TempestOne: 1. For many Tempest users, it is overkill/out of their price range. Many Tempest users can’t afford $900/year on top of their Tempest hardware. It’s an enterprise tool, not a hobbyist tool. They don’t need all the features of Tempest One, just a handful of enhancements to the Tempest app instead. There needs to be an “in between” offering from the extremes of the current Tempest app and Tempest One. Maybe do something like Davis has done with WeatherLink Pro where consumers can pay a small yearly fee for extra “Pro” features in the app, but WeatherLink Pro is still a fraction of the cost of the enterprise-grade stuff that their parent company sells. 2. For those of us who could afford Tempest One (I probably could with my new job, I pay that much per year for Baron), it’s not near mature enough yet to warrant that form of investment. I took the trial. While there are a few neat features in it, it has a _long_ way to go before I could recommend it as an offering to enterprises over more established products such as Baron, Earth Networks, OneRain, etc. I’d even recommend GREarth+CONUS Lightning over it at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![tweatherman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@tweatherman1](https://community.tempest.earth/u/tweatherman1)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2023, 2:41am UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/nearby-rain-alerts/20749/6 "2023-05-13T02:41:59Z")
I echo this on my end as well with the same multi software testing experience as parkernathan. tweatherman