THE BAROMETER'S MESSAGE
CAN YOU READ IT? Comparatively few people tan reatl a barometer correctly. Perhaps it has rained after the glass lias gone up, or played other (piper tricks, and they have concluded that the instrument is out of order. . If the .mercury, is high during wet weather, and keeps there, tiiin weather may bo expected very soon. But if the rise has been sudden tho fine .•.pell will not last. Only a. steady vising glass predicts a. Jong spell of fine. In winter a sharp rise in the mercury foretells frost. North and easterly winds are also indicated by a high level of the glass. When the mercury falls in wet weather the outlook is poor. Afore rain, is sure to follow. In very hob weather a sudden fall denotes a gale or thunderstorm. In frosty weather it gives warning of a thaw. A sudden_ fall at any time foretells wind, or_ wind with much rain; and if tho wind is_ alreuly in the west a violent storm is very probable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19637, 17 August 1927, Page 2
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188THE BAROMETER'S MESSAGE Evening Star, Issue 19637, 17 August 1927, Page 2
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