A rainfall gauge. We can measure the weather using weather instruments. For example, an anemometer measures wind speed, and a thermometer measures temperature. A wind vane shows which direction ...

Scientists began tying instruments to weather balloons to sample temperature, moisture and winds through the atmosphere. This simple advance became critical in understanding how the weather works ...

Some of these instruments help detect potentially dangerous weather phenomena such as microbursts ... but there are operating limits for aircraft. For example, last month’s extreme high ...

The Harrison-Dever Crib has weather instruments and a webcam for monitoring offshore conditions. The cribs were staffed by four-man crews until the 1990s, when automation phased them out.

Additionally, GOES-19 is equipped with space weather instruments to monitor the sun. One of the instruments included in GOES-19 is NOAA’s first compact coronagraph instrument (CCOR-1).

DURHAM, N.H. (AP) — State-of-the-art weather instruments developed by University of New Hampshire researchers have been launched into outer space. The equipment was launched into space aboard a ...

Credit: L3Harris Technologies Colorado Springs — L3Harris Technologies is preparing to modernize the development, production and testing of weather satellite instruments in a new 9,290-square ...