anemometer
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Dr Rok Nežič, who is the tours and outreach officer at Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, said there were ways to measure wind speed before the four cup anemometer, "but they weren't very accurate".
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2025
A weather station with a spinning anemometer sits atop the shack.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 19, 2018
El Faro didn’t even have a working anemometer, a wind-speed gauge.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2018
Like the anemometer, it’s been around ever since a not-very-accurate means of measuring relative humidity was built by—once again—Leonardo da Vinci.
From Time ● Aug. 4, 2015
She asked for a barometer and an anemometer and a rain gauge for Christmas, and hung them outside her bedroom window.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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