Comments on: How to Find Wind Direction with a Kestrel Wind Meter

By: John

John — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 18:37:09 +0000

Doesn’t it make more sense to just attach a small string to the Kestrel that will act as a wind flag to tell direction?

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 03:37:30 +0000

Just a follow-up thought on wind direction. If you turn it sideways to get a reading of 0 then you don’t need to turn it 90 degrees – the side is already facing into the wind. You don’t have to turn it 90 degrees to get the wind direction. It still seems to be making the whole process more complicated than it needs to be. Besides, wind hardly ever blows in the exact same direction for any length of time – there is variation in direction so any general direction would probably work. Still confused…

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 22:24:11 +0000

Can you explain to me why pointing it into the wind to get the highest wind speed won’t give you the wind direction? If you turn it parallel to the wind to get a speed of 0 and then turn it 90 degrees to get the reading, wouldn’t that give you maximum force on the impeller and therefor maximum wind speed? Doesn’t this do the same thing as getting the maximum wind speed by facing the wind to get the highest reading? Are you implying that a wind direction that is at some angle to the impeller is giving a higher reading? To me this doesn’t seem to make any sense – it seems that maximum wind speed would be indicated when facing directly into the wind direction, no matter how you get that reading. Help me understand this reasoning – thanks.