We (gliding club) would like to acquire an anemometer. We can't
afford a full weather station, much as we would like to, and the
most important thing we need to know about is the wind speed and
direction, rather than sunshine, temperature or precipitation.

Ideally we would like something which would take readings of the
wind speed at frequent regular intervals of less than a minute,
and provide an electronic record of the average wind speed and
maximum gust in the past x minutes, where x can be altered to
suit the current conditions. It would be useful if the record
could be easily downloaded to a PC.

What type of equipment would you suggest?

Anne
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