The gauge will help monitor wind in Fountain Park and cause pumps to turn off depending on the weather, the town said in a press release Thursday. The fountain can shoot water up to 560 feet high ...

Netatmo Wind Gauge has no moving parts, instead relying on four sensors that measure wind speed and directionality. The company says the gauge is accurate to around 0.5 km/hour (about 0.3 mph) in ...

With this in mind, and not one to let work distract him from an opportunity to play, [mechanicalsquid] decided to build a wind-monitoring gauge with an old-school look to let him know when the ...

As for wind speed, the 3 cups are used so one cup is always at a 45 degree angle to the wind. With this configuration, there is not one cup that has no wind, as was the case with a four cup ...

Wind speed, on the other hand, it done with a single reed switch as it just needs to count rotations to calculate speed. [Rob] did “cheat” by using an off-the-shelf barometric pressure sensor ...

For the long jump and triple jump, the gauge provides the average wind speed over a five-second periods during the jump. For the 110-meter hurdles, an average is calculated over 13 seconds.