Jessye Norman

If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.

American Musician

Douglas Brinkley

Having recorded his first album, 'Tapestry,' in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the 'generation lost in space.

American Author

Usually found outdoors, often artistically designed to indicate wind direction.

Weather Indicator

Typically installed on high points like roofs, especially on traditional or rural structures.

Position on Buildings

An important component in machinery for directing flow or aiding in rotation.

Machinery Part

Often used in engineering or technical discussions about machinery or devices.

Technical Term

Found on arrows, important for stability and accuracy during flight.

Archery Component

Modern vanes may be made of lightweight plastic, not only traditional feathers.

Not Just Feathers

 meter tower it's got a measuring cup of weather vane and a little computer that records the wind speeds and then we'll also use a soda our unit which is the unit on the right and it sends an acoustic signal up about four or five hundred feet so that we can get a sense of what the wind is going to be like on the entire rotor and we measure that win

How a windmill gets...

 began all life now it's making a comeback in Moreton vane and many other places and it grows at astonishing rates at the height of a bloom its edge can cover an area the size of a football field in an hour dr.

Vane