Barometer Handbook Louisiades and more often we could

and more often we could not get it if we wanted it

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Barometer Handbook Louisiades and more often we couldWith 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