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  2. Tempest prognosticator - Wikipedia

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    The Tempest Prognosticator 1951 Festival of Britain Replica Tempest Prognosticator. The tempest prognosticator, also known as the leech barometer, is a 19th-century invention by George Merryweather in which leeches are used in a barometer. The twelve leeches are kept in small bottles inside the device; when they become agitated by an ...

  3. George Merryweather - Wikipedia

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    His best-known invention was the Tempest Prognosticator—a weather predicting device also called "The Leech Barometer". [2] It consists of twelve glass bottles containing leeches, which, when disturbed by the atmospheric conditions preceding a storm, climb upwards, triggering a small whalebone hammer which rings a bell.

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    The Geminid meteor shower this year is set to peak at almost the same time as December's full moon, which could make for challenging viewing conditions. ... Jamie Lee Curtis recalls going makeup ...

  8. Weather forecasting - Wikipedia

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    An example of 500 mbar geopotential height and absolute vorticity prediction from a numerical weather prediction model Main article: Numerical weather prediction The basic idea of numerical weather prediction is to sample the state of the fluid at a given time and use the equations of fluid dynamics and thermodynamics to estimate the state of ...

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    The Summary. Obesity dipped slightly in U.S. adults last year for the first time in more than a decade, a study found. The researchers suggested that might be due, in part, to the rise of weight ...