Dunbar Barometer – one for the weather nuts

In the old Cromwell Harbour in Dunbar there is a fisherman's memorial which is fitted with a barometer. Most small ports had their own public barometers. This one also has a temperature guage and gives some hints for both pressure and temperature regarding predicted wind strength and direction.

I thought that the weather prediction on the bottom panel are rather interesting.

here is a bit of conext to the barometers

http://www.webhistorian.co.uk/pages/index.php?id=190

they were promoted by this bloke

"Vice-Admiral Robert Fitzroy (1805 to 1865) former Naval hydrographer born in Suffolk believed that many ships and lives were lost at sea because the captain’s left port unaware of coming storms. In order to remedy this he had a specially designed ‘Fishery Storm Barometer’ issued to every port. The ports which couldn’t afford one, got theirs free, others had to pay or have it paid for by local businesses. Their large clear scales bear ‘Fitzroy’s Rules’. Fitzroy’s barometers must have saved thousands of lives over the years.

In a report dated 22nd June 1858 Fitzroy reported that he had supplied ten substantial durable and easy to observe barometers. These were issued to:

1) Newhaven. 2) Anstruther.

3) Arbroath. 4) Rosehearty.

5) Whitehills. 6) Portessie.

7) Lybster. 8) Dunbeath.

9) Lerwick. 10) St. Ives.

and there is this rain guage from brittany