Friday, June 22, 2012

My Weather Tools

Last night I watched the International Space Station fly by.  It went by in the northwest sky.  This is a picture of the dusk sky from last night.

Today I am going to talk about the tools meteorologists use.  At Christmastime I got this fancy weather station used.  Weather stations tell you some very important weather information. I used to predict weather with my friends. I liked it so much, my mom and dad got me this weather station. Now I will tell you about the tools on the weather station.
Hygrometer - measures humidity   
Thermometer - measures temperature
Rain Gauge - measures rainfall
Anemometer - measures wind speed


My favorite tool is the anemometer.  Someday I hope I can use an anemometer to measure a hurricane's wind speed.  And, it has the word mom in it (just a little joke).
This is a picture of me with my weather station.  The tool on top is the anemometer.  My favorite tool.  A couple of days a go, it was really spinning.  The highest reading I got was 10.57 mpk.  This was on my street.  We didn't get a true reading because we didn't have it in an open field.



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  1. DrJJune 22, 2012 at 8:42 PM

    Awesome blog, Grant. In my middle school Science class we built ping pong ball anemometers using a protractor, string, and a ping pong ball. I found a site that had better instructions than my memory can supply. Check it out:
    http://www.ehow.com/how_7721155_homemade-ping-pong-ball-anemometers.html

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  2. HeidiJune 23, 2012 at 9:35 PM

    Wow Grant, this is a really cool blog! I'm really excited to show Evan, (Do you remember Evan? He was in your kindergarten class and we moved to Arizona.) This is a really neat idea to write a blog. What a great summer project!

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