Cyclone Performance Weather Instruments

Cyclone Performance Weather Instruments Cyclone is customer 1st quality weather instruments. Licensed commercial grade weather instrument installations. 40 years experience with weather equipment.

Welcome! The first 21st century online weather instrument/ equipment store! Bringing 100% excellent customer service to customers, clients, owners of excellent U.S. made weather instruments. Education of choices of excellent instruments. We sell and service: Davis, Maximum, Cape Cod, Downeaster, Trade Wind, Taylor, Wilfrid O. White, Dwyer, Danforth/ White, Danforth, and many other makes. Technical services. We have over 30 years of weather instrument experience. -CPWI

Many people started their weather instrument hobby with Trade Wind Instruments, a company located in Seattle/ Enumclaw l...
05/31/2026

Many people started their weather instrument hobby with Trade Wind Instruments, a company located in Seattle/ Enumclaw locally. They started making models in the late 1960s with metal cups aluminum & vane, a lot of people bought these around the PNW in the 1970s + 1980s They were very popular on homes & boats, elsewhere. Now all but forgotten, we've collected a small handful of originals saved over the last 40 years including some of their first models. We remember seeing quite a few here in Cannon Beach. Still a few up on homes inland in smaller local towns. They were budget minded, lasted a few years, but for a beginner they worked, the next level up were Maximum, Heathkit, Cape Cod and in the late 80s Digitar/ Davis. The company went out of business in 1997 when Ron Tyler retired and is still living in Enumclaw, WA. We remember seeing these on a lot of homes & buildings. If you have a story about one or have one still, please feel free to comment below! -Matt CPWI

More recent UV damaged weather stations. Wake up call to people, these stations sure look appealing to purchase, in real...
05/31/2026

More recent UV damaged weather stations. Wake up call to people, these stations sure look appealing to purchase, in reality don't last long, or reliable. Chinese quick cash grabs. They come and go quickly. Don't let this be a base to turn you off for purchasing reliable quality weather equipment! There are quality options out there! Save your money for quality Davis, Cape Cod & Maximum. CPWI

05/30/2026

August 29, 2015 windstorm on a 1981 Maximum Maestro in S Cannon Beach. This was a very powerful storm with 50-70 mph gusts. The sensors here had made 34 years even if the wiring had come undone the integrity was still there these had been through thousands of storms and persistent sea breezes off the Pacific and were removed in 2021 when the home was remodeled. Shows what quality is, how it can last in very harsh environments. Right on the Pacific Ocean. We take note of stuff like this, each one helps improve new future installations elsewhere. CPWI

Weather station installations. Here to talk about it. We remember weather stations installed in the 1970s 80s 90s and ea...
05/30/2026

Weather station installations. Here to talk about it.
We remember weather stations installed in the 1970s 80s 90s and early to mid 2000s. At that time, nearly everything was mounted on a roof, secured properly. These are examples of weather stations we've seen recently, and wouldn't it be prudent to put it on a roof if possible? The need for battery replacement is one of the causes for installations like this along with copying propaganda of 'My backyard weather station' sales & gimmickery attempts. Consider the temperature, wind speed & direction inaccuracies of behind a house wall proximity, fenceposts, deck rails, fences, behind and in hedges, 4x4s and nailing them on, plus storms, kids, animals, yard accidents toppling them due to improper installation. Keep in mind most Chinese weather stations have brief lifespans and their accuracy level is not what it says or promises it is regardless of being connected to a phone. There are many better options out there. Install on roofs if possible and find stations that don't eat batteries have UV yellowing possibilities, and electronics that don't last long outside requiring perpetual replacements & upgrades from one company to another. We're observing this the last 20+ years. CPWI

If there is any more instrument more reliable than this, it would be hard to find. Instantaneous wind speed, no batterie...
05/30/2026

If there is any more instrument more reliable than this, it would be hard to find. Instantaneous wind speed, no batteries, brass & glass, minimal, high quality marine grade robust electronics, and best of all, self powered & gust register. June 1974 Vigilant, these have been staples for homes and beach homes for decades often working 30-40-50 years. CPWI

Hands down one of the best wind instruments made of all time, many still in service nearly 50 years outlasting everythin...
05/27/2026

Hands down one of the best wind instruments made of all time, many still in service nearly 50 years outlasting everything else many times over. We've seen ones from the 1970s & early 1980s still on beach front homes around. Tells you something about Maximum's quality & design engineering.
This is NOS 1978-1980 Maximum Weather Instruments Maestro one of 1500 made with the anodized aluminum vane. Inexpensive costing much less than replacing the perpetual weather stations rolling out of China over & over. No batteries for the instantaneous wind speed which works during power outages, highest mechanical gust still very applicable today, and 110v wind direction. Time capsule given as a Christmas gift in Maryland, yet never used put in a closet. Love instruments like this one! CPWI

Same things over and over online. Amazon, Ebay, FB Marketplace other places their sites sell these w/o quality instead p...
05/25/2026

Same things over and over online. Amazon, Ebay, FB Marketplace other places their sites sell these w/o quality instead propaganda and sales pitches rather for the $. They yellow, fail, break, quit working and then end up online for $$ recovery, and most intelligent or good knowing people won't touch them, sitting unsold for months years until removal. We see these coming and going very quickly around here in the PNW. Many costing as much as a good Davis or even Maximum. Why go through 3 or 4 or more of these when you could purchase/ invest in quality? We see these in the expected places one would see Chinese stations, on fences, fenceposts, 4x4s a few feet off the ground because of the need to replace batteries and how they tell people to install. Weather stations in the 1950s-2000s were virtually on roofs not this 'backyard weather' sales pitch of gimmicks & bragging propaganda. CPWI

Both these Maximum Weather Instruments Maestros, one on the Columbia River near Tidewater, the other off 122nd & Powell ...
05/23/2026

Both these Maximum Weather Instruments Maestros, one on the Columbia River near Tidewater, the other off 122nd & Powell in Portland are approaching their 50th year of service, these have been outside since 1983 or earlier when Maximum stopped making the anodized aluminum vane. Approximately 1500 with the anodized aluminum vane were made from 1969-1983 sold across the country. The nose weight version 1969-70-1972, black painted 1973-1977 and the 1973-74 versions have white plastic tops. We've also seen a few very rare variations with all white plastic and the earliest ones had an anodized aluminum top pre 1971.
These have been outside 24/7 through all the hot & cold, wind storms, hail, snow, high & low UV ray days for nearly 5 decades and still going. Any other maker of weather instruments can come close to this? We're out here looking for these message us if you have one, story of one or selling one. Working on a collection for Maximum. CPWI

1955-1956 Cape Cod Weather Instruments advertisements, love the Seattle one, a few skippers out in the Puget Sound likel...
05/23/2026

1955-1956 Cape Cod Weather Instruments advertisements, love the Seattle one, a few skippers out in the Puget Sound likely had these on their ships along with Wilfrid O. Whites & Danforth Whites in the 1950s and 1960s. CPWI

A very clean, very clean! 1968-69 Taylor Windscope, looking into it. Without sensors, not much value people try price go...
05/23/2026

A very clean, very clean! 1968-69 Taylor Windscope, looking into it. Without sensors, not much value people try price gouging gauges online all the time, but they are no more than a paperweight (little value) or vintage wall decoration without the sensors. A small handful of people still using these around the country 60 years on.... And we service & have parts for them here. NOS ones sell well online quickly. -Matt CPWI

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124 N. Hemlock Street
Cannon Beach, OR
97110

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