If you want to check the wind speeds in a specific location an anemometer will tell you all you need to know.

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"Growing up in Dallas, with severe weather, my parents gave me an anemometer, which measures wind, " he says, and his interest took off from there.

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As a boy growing up on Long Island he had greeted news of hurricanes by going up to the attic to sit with an anemometer, and built his own telescope in order to gasp at the planets it revealed.

ECONOMIST: Steve Schneider