anemometer

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Dr. Lee Ju-hyung has largely avoided restaurants in recent months, but on the few occasions he’s dined out, he’s developed a strange, if sensible, habit: whipping out a small anemometer to check the airflow.

From Los Angeles Times

Officers were checking seven wind-detection machines, known as anemometers, as the balloons proceeded down the route from West 77th Street and Central Park West to the grandstand at Herald Square.

From Seattle Times

As the inflated characters hover their way downtown, the supervisors are fed information from the anemometers.

From New York Times

Each platform is fitted with an anemometer, which measures wind speed, and an alarm sounds if the speeds reach 30 mph.

From Los Angeles Times

Currently, there are multiple ways to measure the wind, from whirling anemometers and weather balloons to the satellites that infer wind behaviour by tracking clouds in the sky.

From BBC