Windvanes
Windvanes: helping you to determine the weather
Everybody watches the weather report on TV, and soon they begin to associate the different types of oncoming weather with the type of wind that is blowing. For example, in certain parts of the world a NW wind means lots of rain! Now you can predict the weather by yourself with your own windvane.
How to read your windvanes
Reading your windvanes is easy. All you need to do is visually align the direction that the pointer is pointing into with the directionals below the pointer. That will give you the accurate name of the blowing wind.
The role of the weathervane pointer
The pointer is a free moving object that rotates on the single middle axis point. It is carefully balanced so that it always settles in the source direction of a blowing wind - this is because all winds are named from their source.
