One of the most important things in a weather forecast for London - in a country that gets its weather from all directions - is which way the wind is blowing. A northerly in winter most often brings ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Even in today’s age, farmers continue to watch the local TV weatherman, as did my father some 50 years ago. Yet, I recall during harvesting or planting season, my father, upon glancing at the ...

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 ...

Last summer, Vermont’s Burlington Free Press reported on a stolen weather vane. It wasn’t just any petty theft. The perpetrator went so far as to build and silently install a replica of the ...

If the term “3D printed weather station” makes you think of a printed enclosure for off-the-shelf sensors, don’t feel bad. We thought the same thing when we first read the message [Rob Ward] sent in ...

BONNY DOON — Behind each of their weather vanes is a story, say LizAnne and Ken Jensen, owners of West Coast Weather Vanes. Take Max, for instance. His weather vane is an almost life-size portrait, ...

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 ...