The Windy City
by JoLae Brandt and Kasey Painter
Monroe Elementary School, Enid, Oklahoma
(presented at the 1999 Earthstorm Science Fair)

I got together with my partner and we just started naming things we could do. She had the idea and we started on it. We were interested in what direction the wind came from that made the trees lean that way.

We took pictures of trees. We labeled the way they grew. We got some information on the Mesonet, made some charts, and put things on a board and in a book. Our conclusion is that the wind in Lahoma came from the southeast. We also found that we were partly right, but partly wrong.

We learned that the wind is why the trees lean a certain way. I would do another Mesonet project because it is fun to get on the Mesonet and get information off of it.
 
 
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