I was recently shopping for digital rain gauges and finding any one I wanted to be over $30, and stumbled across a full weather station under $60 from a reasonably reputable brand. It has a good range of sensors, what I think is a generally good design, and it seems more durable than average (but it's early days.) This is a little micro-review of it.
I'm not too interested in providing free ad serving bandwith, so if you want to see pictures you should head to the manufacturer's site. More probably they're just a label; I haven't looked into the specifics of their corporate structure, but you see more and more Vevor-branded stuff. For example, they are a popular brand of the now-ubiquitous diesel heaters which are knockoffs of the anticompetitively-priced German models.
I've had a cheap weather station before, by which I mean it was "only" a hundred dollars, and that lasted about a season before disintegrating. The normal price on this thing is about eighty dollars US, which is more than I personally would like to pay for anything this simple just on principle. But if you look around, you can quite easily spend hundreds of dollars for a weather station with fewer features than this. It's got the usual wind speed and direction, rain gauge, and temperature and humidity sensors; it also has a sunlight sensor which claims to measure UV. In this wintery season there hasn't been much of that, so it's difficult to say how accurate that might be, but it seems to be a tolerably high-quality piece of plastic. It also has a lot more plastic than most cheap weather stations, which I think is usually their downfall, literally. The other reliability question is: how well will the little solar panel hold up?
The display/network unit is mediocre; I find the display to be busy, and the color overlay in the display is too dark where the inside temperature is displayed. It does however successfully connect to 2.4 GHz WiFi with WPA2, and send data to wunderground and/or WeatherCloud after you configure it, which is done via an internal web interface after putting it into AP mode and connecting to it via WiFi. It also sets its time and date from a time server of your choice, which is nice. Another nifty feature is that it has capacitive touch controls, so there are no buttons to fail. This includes a brightness feature controlled by tapping the top of the case.
I got mine during some kind of special on aliexpress for $57.56 shipped, and I see that seller now has it for $87.19, which is more than on the official site. I think even the $80.99 Vevor is charging on their site is maybe a bit much, but if this thing can hold up for years then it's probably still a bargain. Fingers crossed, I guess.
Side Note, the NiMh battery pack in the sensor half of the system reminds me of an old cordless phone battery, I bet it's pretty easy to source another one with the same connector.