Many wildland fire crews carry some sort of pocketable weather monitoring device, ranging from a sling psychrometer to an electronic weather meter which can cost up to many hundreds of dollars.
After seeing a Tweet by Southeast England Wildfire Group about a wind direction vane mount for a Kestrel weather meter, we checked it out and it’s a real thing. It is designed to be tripod-mountable and can hold any Kestrel weather meter. The idea is that the mount will rotate so that the back of the meter always faces into the wind, enabling accurate wind speed readings. This could be useful if you’re going to be in the same place for a long time, your meter can log the data which you intend to upload onto a computer, or if your meter has Bluetooth capability.
It has received mixed reviews on Amazon, and is priced at $41.18 to $63.06 from various sellers, some without Prime free 2-day shipping. At one point it came with a small tripod (which was criticized by reviewers), but appears now to come without it.
