Barometer Handbook Size 4 Cairns Coast

Cairns Coast

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Australia - North West Coast - Western Australia - Dampier Archipelago

Queensland down to Hobart

sailing and fishing) of developing traffic situations at sea

Barometer Handbook Size 4 Cairns CoastWith the exception of trained meteorological crews, barometers in the past were used at sea primarily to learn if the pressure was going up or down, and whether it was doing this rapidly or slowly. From this we made an educated guess of a likely consequence, usually in conjunction with other observations. Outside of professional marine use, little effort was made to know the true pressure for several reasons. We did not know what to do with it if we