👉 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 ...

Explanation: Wind vanes are used to measure wind direction. The vane points into the wind. For a more accurate reading, make arrow smaller than video shows (wanted it to be easily seen)!

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 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Look up to the sky on pinnacles, cupolas, at the top of barns, churches, businesses, and homes. There you will find, turning in the wind, the functional art form known as the weathervane. At one time, ...