“Not fair.You promised we could go to the climbing park.”

“But, it is going to rain, and the climbing park is outdoors.”

“But it isn’t raining, just clouds, it isn’t raining at all…”

“The weather lady says so, and she knows, rain in the afternoon.” 

“I expect that weather lady got it wrong.”

“Silly weather lady,”

She stared out of her bedroom window.

she whispered – and then the rain started.

“Oh.Not so silly weather lady.”

“We’ll go to the climbing park another day.”

“How does the weather lady know about the weather.”

“Well, she has got a weather station, I think.”

“Grandpa might know; we’ll ask him tomorrow.”

And that’s what Wendi did, she asked her Grandpa.

“We can build a little weather station in the garden if you like, Wendi,”

” You’ll need a wind vane to see how the wind is blowing, we can make that”

        .

“We can make a rain gauge, to measure how much rain has fallen.”

        .

“And, I’ve got a good thermometer for outdoors.”

 “A thermometer, what is that?

“A thermometer measures the temperature, how warm or cold it is.”

“Thermometer.

“And last of all, we need a Barometer, that’s a big word too, Wendi. A barometer tells us what the air pressure is, I’ve got one, too.”

“Well, if the air pressure changes, the weather will change.”

“But what’s air pressure?”

Grandpa laughed and promised to help Wendi build a little garden weather station.

Grandpa and Wendi worked hard. Wendi made the wind vane with paper cups on a stick.

“Like a pinwheel.”

They put up a bright ‘Windsock’, a silly name, with red, yellow, and blue ribbons too.

“It isn’t a sock at all.But we can see how windy the wind is.”

The rain gauge was easy, a glass jar with the measures written on the side. They put it into the grass, so it couldn’t get knocked over. The Barometer and the Thermometer were easy too, and they found a good place near Wendi’s playhouse.

And Grandpa made a stand, so Wendi could check every day.

“And now the most important thing, Wendi…”

Grandpa fixed a chart on the wall of her playhouse.

“You have to keep a chart, a list of all the wind, rain, and temperature changes.

That’s when you’ll see how the weather is changing. Then you really will be a weathergirl.”