Thermometers are essential weather instruments that measure air temperature. They provide crucial data for meteorologists to ...

An anemometer — an instrument that typically has three cups that spin around a central axis when the wind blows — at the island's weather station recorded the 3-to-5-second gust. It took over ...

The hot-wire anemometer, invented by L.V. King in 1926, measures wind speed by sensing the cooling effect of the wind on a heated wire. This cooling effect is directly proportional to the wind ...