Some of our readers might remember the Vaavud smartphone wind meter that launched over on the Kickstarter website back in April 2013. Now Vaavud is back with a new version that is cable of recording ...

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 ...

We often hear this term when weather is blamed for a plane crash. By definition, a wind shear is any change in wind direction and or speed either horizontally or upward. Typically some wind shear is ...

There are different types of wind names based on their location in the world, speed, as well as the general wind direction. Meteorologists, scientists, and other observers of weather have given names ...

One of the biggest problems with wind energy is that it's difficult to predict the behavior of the wind itself and, by extension, to plan for the amount of power wind turbines are able to generate in ...

Winds are measured by sensors located 20 feet above the ground. That is the height at which, by international agreement, wind readings are taken. Wind speeds are two-minute averages and the strongest ...