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Retired Teacher Measures Every Gust With Homemade Anemometer Made From Yoghurt Pots
Fictional Doreen McFie, 74, of Letham, 'confident it's at least breezy'.
Yoghurt-based science. Photo: Bärbel Miemietz, “2023-09-14 Anemometer Clifton Suspension Bridge 01”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
LETHAM — Fictional retiree Doreen McFie has recorded every gust since 1998 on a device made of yoghurt pots and a knitting needle. “It’s broken six times,” she says. “Each time I knew it was a big one.”
Her readings are emailed nightly to the Met Office, who have never replied, “out of professional jealousy”.
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