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• Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Aneroid Barometer: Meteorological instrument which sailors often use to confirm the onset of bad weather.
  Its readings, together with heavy rain, severe rolling, high winds, dark skies, and a deep cloud cover, indicate the presence of a storm....
• We are unable to announce the weather. We depend on weather reports from the airport, which is closed, due to weather.
  Whether we will be able to give you a weather report tomorrow will depend on the weather....
• barometer: scientific instrument used to locate mountain taverns.
  see brake bar. -- "An Alphabet for Mountaineers", Climbing 1982...
• In India, cold weather is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.
  -- Mark Twai...