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Blowing in the Wind

Windstorms swept across the eastern U.S. today, with winds gusting as high as 70 miles per hour. Almost a million people are without power. Learn more about the wind at the following Web sites:

  • Discovery School’s Capture the Wind - instructions to build a simple anemometer and measure wind speeds.
  • Wind Chill - learn the relationship between wind speed and temperature

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  • Education World presents Wind and Wings - “simple hands-on activities that demonstrate Daniel Bernoulli’s principle of air pressure and air flight.”

    This entry was posted on Thursday, November 13th, 2003 at 22:27 and is filed under Meteorology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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