What is "barometric"

Usage examples of "barometric".

Both trawlers had reported a big swell still running from the north, but the wind backing westerly and the barometric pressure 2 to 3 millibars lower than the weather map indicated in that area.

Her first contact with him, reporting a drop of 2 millibars in the barometric pressure in that locality, was made at 17.

Long years at sea, standing watch on the bridges of ships, had taught me the value of that instrument, what those small changes of barometric pressure could mean translated into physical terms of weather.

I was remembering Cliffs message: the Faeroes had reported barometric pressure 968, rising, with winds southerly, force 10.

Sykes came in with another sheet from the teleprinter, more barometric pressure figures.

This is proved to us by the weight which the air imposes upon the mercury at the open end of a barometric tube.

Every movement of the winds is not only brought about by changes in the relative weight of the air at certain points, but the winds themselves, owing to the momentum which the air attains by them, serve to bring about alterations in the quantity of air over different parts of the earth, which are marked most distinctly by barometric variations.

United Kingdom and the western border of central Europe, has indicated that off the north-west of Scotland a centre of great barometric disturbance exists.

The same thing will hold good with regard to Cape Horn: it appears from previous observation that a permanent barometric depression exists in this locality, most probably in some way connected with the immense depression noticed by Captain Sir James Clark Ross, towards the Antarctic Circle.

Its eastern portion includes the lower branches of the storm paths, and on this account is peculiarly interesting, especially in a barometric point of view.

By this means some notion might be formed of the general direction of the line of barometric pressure preceding or succeeding a storm.

The complete rise and fall has been termed the great symmetrical barometric wave of November.

We have already marked out the two capes in the Southern hemisphere for three-hourly observations: they must doubtless possess very peculiar barometric characters, stretching as they do into the vast area of the Southern Ocean.

At present we know but little of the barometric movements in the Southern hemisphere, and every addition to our knowledge in this respect will open the way to more important conclusions.

The airship dropped lower and lower until the altimeter - an unreliable device worked by barometric pressure - warned them they were as low as they dared go in darkness.