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Weather stations are a popular project for experimenting with various environmental sensors, and for wind speed and direction the choice is usually a simple cup anemometer and wind vane.

If you place your weather station in an alley, you could very well get a wind tunnel effect on the anemometer, resulting in erroneous wind data. Your weather station should have good "fetch", or ...

The self-emptying tipping bucket technology is most often used for rain gauges in weather stations ... meshes help keep the instrument clean. Cup anemometer with separate wind vane - Uses three ...

In this episode we will continue the process of making a weather station. We will use everyday materials to build a homemade anemometer. Submit photos or videos of your students participating to ...

Surely he couldn’t mean that he actually printed all the principal parts of a serious weather station setup, such as the wind vane, anemometer, or rain gauge? Except, on closer inspection ...

We can measure the weather using weather instruments. For example, an anemometer measures wind speed, and a thermometer measures temperature. A wind vane shows which direction the wind is coming ...

NOW IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY, WE HAVE A SUDDEN DROP IN WINDS SPEEDS RIGHT THERE, AND THAT WAS DUE TO OUR PITOT ANEMOMETER ACTUALLY GETTING CLOGGED WITH ICE." 00:04:15> THE FIX? WEATHER OBSERVERS PUMP A ...