Today the Bonneville Power Administration will install the first of fourteen anemometers to better track where and how hard the wind is blowing. The BPA, which markets power from the Northwest's ...

unless we employ for that purpose some other anemometer, which must itself be first tested. In the author's view, the effect of using the whirler in the open air is to alternately add to anal ...

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.

The first stage of this project however was to ... A quick look online revealed that a number of wind speed meters or anemometers were available to purchase, ranging in price from just a few ...

To measure wind speed and direction, most people turn the traditional cup anemometer and wind vane. Another less-known method is to use an array of ultrasonic transducers, which doesn’t need any ...

Weather Experiment: How to measure wind speed with a wind anemometer An anemometer is a device that measures wind speed. While we used and demonstrated a hand-held anemometer to the third graders ...

Either way, Raina got it right when she asked her question. "Hello, my name is Raina and I was just wondering how an anemometer measures wind speed." Of course, we turned to Chief meteorologist ...