👉 Watch the video of Sarah’s science experiment at Canyon Ridge Elementary here! Hello parents, teachers and students! Today’s experiment explores meteorology in your backyard. Be sure to check out ...

GRAND RAPIDS — Recently we have had some very windy days, but do we always know which direction the wind is blowing? In today's weather experiment we are going to build a wind vane or weather vane to ...

Double-fin vanes which have their fins at angles >10° with the vane axis may refuse to point into the wind, having instead two symmetric equilibrium positions at angles up to 16° with respect to the ...

Perched atop churches, barns, businesses, homes and seats of government, weather vanes have over hundreds of years taken the form of everything from farm animals to pets, storybook figures to race ...

Have you ever wondered how an electronic wind vane translates a direction into a unique signal? It seems as though it might be very complicated, and indeed some of them are. [martinm] over at ...

Weather vanes may have different appearances, but they generally have one thing in common, and that is the direction the "arrow" points with respect to wind direction. That part of the vane opposite, ...

Weather vanes, used for centuries to indicate wind direction, now serve primarily as ornamental and symbolic decorations. Weather vane designs, often crafted from copper or gold-gilded steel, range ...

Journal of Applied Meteorology (1962-1982), Vol. 3, No. 2 (April 1964), pp. 182-193 (12 pages) The fundamentals of step and sinusoidal gust responses for propellers and vanes are considered, and ...

This press release is also available in Spanish. Because of this, the ever increasing presence of wind parks in zones of extreme climate make it puts an onus on optimising the protection coating ...

PEORIA, Ill. -- Not many exhibits are likely to give more pleasure than "Whirligigs and Weathervanes," which opened this spring in the Lakeview Museum's Folk Art Gallery here and continues through ...

Two cameras mounted on tripods with wind vane attachments were positioned about 50 feet apart along an axis of 45 degrees to the direction of the wind Both cameras were free to pan through 360 degrees ...

Weather vanes may have different appearances, but they generally have one thing in common, and that is the direction the arrow points with respect to wind direction. That part of the vane opposite, or ...