A weather vane is also called a wind vane. It is a tool for measuring wind direction. It spins on a rod and points in the direction from which the wind comes. The weather vane is one of the oldest ...

City officials had the weather vane dismantled for repairs in September after the busy tourism season. For nearly a year, the weather vane was not properly pointing in the wind's direction.

Weather vanes, used for centuries to indicate wind direction, now serve primarily as ornamental and symbolic decorations. Weather vane designs, often crafted from copper or gold-gilded steel ...

A weather vane that was bought in a salvage yard helped to reunite the families of a Lancaster bomber crew that were all killed on their way home from a raid on Nazi Germany. Helen Theron bought ...

A weather vane, said to be one of the world's largest, now crowns one of the towers at Gospodor Monument Park, a can't miss attraction on the east side of Interstate 5, just before exit No. 63 ...

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 ...

Thomas Jefferson had an attachment on a weather vane at his Monticello home which turned a pointer inside the house so he could read the direction of the wind without going outside.

This year marks the weather vane's 40th anniversary. Here’s a little history on how this mammoth monument came to be.

Old Bill of Woodsboro is about as close to a perfect contrarian weather vane as anyone I've ever met. I know if he says "North," the right answer is almost invariably "South," and I know if he ...

He also said there are theories about the meaning and symbolism of the weather vane. "Just as weather vanes indicate the direction from which the wind comes, so too does our theology point us ...