Weather Stations - Weather vanes

Next in our creation of weather stations comes a weather vane. These show the direction that wind comes from. We used some cardboard, a square piece of card (for the directions), a skewer, a felt pen cap, tape, and a compass to set these up.






Ollie's Weather Vane showed a strong northerly outside today.      

Weather Stations

We are keeping an accurate eye on the weather. Yesterday, we made rain gauges and got them outside... just in time for it to stop raining! Beautiful blue sky since, but we know that we'll get some data out of them in the next week or two.

 Today we constructed Anemometers. These instruments measure wind speed. What fun it was working out how many times they went around in 60 seconds. Once we get some more data, we'll update this post.