| Various instruments like thermometers and barometers are used to measure this. |
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| Their weather station houses barometers, thermometers, a wind vane, and a rain gauge. |
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| Among the chosen are barometers which can monitor and forecast weather conditions using graphic icons. |
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| Falling barometers are regularly followed by storms, but do not cause them. |
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| They had sextants, early microscopes, clocks, thermometers, and barometers. |
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| There you should be able to find thermometers, rain gauges, wind vanes and possibly barometers and humidity gauges. |
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| Leading Internet words may very well be the new electric symbols, barometers for the stormy forces of this new electronic democracy. |
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| By studying their calcium carbonate shells, it is possible to determine temperature, salinity and other barometers of the time, she said. |
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| Black argues that worms should be used, along with predators such as the northern spotted owl, as barometers of forest health. |
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| Time was, carline thistles were used as country barometers because the flowers expand in dry weather and contract when it is damp. |
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| In Kendal, Dalton started to keep a metrological journal, he made his own thermometers, barometers and other instruments. |
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| Implementation of the digital barometers will begin to reduce the frequency of altimeter setting anomalies. |
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| Measures that served as barometers of how voters view gay rights and gay relationships were on the ballots in four states, and the results were a decidedly mixed bag. |
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| The collection, which also includes barometers and valuable horological textbooks, goes under the hammer on December 7 at Christie's King Street auction house in London. |
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| Markets also benefit from the wisdom of crowds, making them powerful barometers of what might happen next. |
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| Metallic mercury is used in thermometers, barometers, batteries, electrical switches, fluorescent bulbs and dental amalgams. |
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| Since these birds are at the top of the aquatic food web, they can serve as barometers or indicators of environmental conditions. |
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| Perhaps one of the most damning barometers of how we are doing is the unprecedented level of brain drain in this country. |
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| These shops also act as market barometers, making it possible to analyze the consumer's needs better. |
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| Like the polar bear, the groundhog, and other creatures of the wild, professional eaters have internal barometers, delicately calibrated to different times of the year. |
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| These magnetometers and their successors have played the role that barometers did for early weather forecasters. |
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| I trust that in the name of common sense we will say no to the ban on the production of barometers. |
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| This House is now arguing in favour of another two years' delay for traditional barometers, which is incredibly lenient of it. |
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| Alternatively, they can buy a second-hand one, as the directive is about the release onto the market of new barometers. |
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| To increase their accuracy, mercury barometers are often corrected for ambient temperature and the local value of gravity. |
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| Work has begun across the country to install digital barometers to replace the ageing mercury barometers traditionally used in weather observing. |
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| The transition period will be sufficient for producers of mercury barometers to adapt their businesses to the alternative products. |
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| Various sensors such as weather radar, anemometers, barometers, visibility sensors, ceilometers, etc. are installed at all Belgian airports. |
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| It is also about scales, pedometers, barometers and hydrometers. |
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| Fortunately, more ships than today sailed along the USA's coasts in the 19th century and their captains generally had barometers and an eye for weather. |
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| Whilst I can, of course, imagine that this is hard news for producers of barometers to take, if we want to banish mercury altogether, we must in any event ban consumer products that contain it. |
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| During the years 1788 to 1822, forts and fur trading post were built across the western plains where thermometers, wind vanes, and barometers have been set up. |
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| There is nothing to stop manufacturers from selling new barometers without any mercury, along with a set of instructions on how consumers can fill them themselves. |
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| There are now some quite compelling alternative popularity barometers to the official singles chart, as released every Sunday at 7pm by the Official Charts Company. |
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| Over the last few years, the business plan has been a beacon and one of the main barometers of the network's performance and growth, and Caisses can be proud of the year's results. |
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| The art market is one of the last bastions of inefficiency and that's what makes it so fascinating. By all nebulous barometers, business in Basel was satisfactory, possibly even very good. |
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| A mercury barometer is used to calibrate and check aneroid barometers. |
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| A ban would apply to new mercury barometers, but it seems sensible to regard second-hand barometers as acceptable, as this would make possible their continued sale, repair and maintenance. |
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| Of the many different varieties of mercury barometers, most variations arise from different techniques for measuring the height of the mercury column. |
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| At present, mercury barometers are manufactured by only a few small specialist enterprises and are sold to the general public mainly as decorative items. |
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| Do not allow yourselves inadvertently to be used by those who might want to kill the legislation as a whole and those who might want to use the issue of barometers to promote their Eurosceptic views. |
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| The weakest members of society become social barometers or canaries in a coal mine. |
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| In this context, civil society organisations have published two coherence barometers that monitor how well government policies are fulfilling the ambitious objectives of the PGD in different areas. |
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| He made and repaired brass reflecting quadrants, parallel rulers, scales, parts for telescopes, and barometers, among other things. |
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| To do so, he reproduced and amplified experiments on atmospheric pressure by constructing mercury barometers and measuring air pressure, both in Paris and on the top of a mountain overlooking Clermont-Ferrand. |
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| Tony Gaston is interviewed by Peter Mansbridge about his 30-plus years of field research, including a discussion of the role of birds as barometers of change. |
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| This why the European Commission has proposed today to ban the marketing of mercury in new fever and room thermometers, barometers, blood pressure gauges and manometers and sphygmomanometers. |
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| For several years now, the Group companies have been developing their own barometers and surveys to measure customer satisfaction and define priorities for improving it. |
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| The research is usually ad hoc, qualitative and quantitative, but some may also be standardised and renewed periodically in the form of barometers. |
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| A sort of weather station contained barometers, anemometers and rain gauges and a library housed a remarkable collection of maps from all over the world. |
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| Excluded from this regulation are products that are already on the market, devices regarded as antiques and collectors' items, and barometers, the manufacture of which should be duly licensed, and which may be phased out. |
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| The ban will apply to new fever thermometers for both professional and private use, and also to manometers, barometers, sphygmomanometers, thermometers other than fever thermometers. |
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| Seeking to include barometers epitomises in a way the fanatical and irrational dogma that all too often drives and brings ridicule to otherwise sensible Commission proposals. |
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| The environmental and health threat posed is, I would suggest, so miniscule as to be out of all proportion to the devastating ban which this directive would impose on future production of barometers. |
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| When barometers in the home are set to match the local weather reports, they measure pressure adjusted to sea level, not the actual local atmospheric pressure. |
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