Change mode when it's raining?

As I think more about this, I think getting a personal weather station connected to smartThings may be the best solution. I may also benefit from knowing wind Speed and direction as well. My wife likes to put inflatables outside for the holidays and we get some pretty strong winds from time to time. Last year I tried to use IFTTT to turn off the inflatables if the wind was too strong. I found that the weather channel for IFTTT didn’t trigger accurately enough when our inflatable blew out of the ground.

Do you have any experience with connecting a weather station to smartThings? I know less about weather stations than I do about being a meteorologist.