Well, our New England winter has been a tough one weatherwise for my weather station here in Brewster. One of our coldest and snowy winter starts kept my anemometer and wind vane frozen. A brief thaw helped to free up the anemometer but the vane stayed locked at WSW. That is until a few days ago when I did a visual check and discovered the vane was gone! Soon I was amazed to find it intact in one of the rain gutters. Apparently the bearing remained sufficiently frozen so that the wind pushing against the vane unscrewed the nut that had held it attached. So I guess I will be reporting a WSW wind until spring when I’ll be able to get to the roof to take down the AAG wind unit for repair.