Orson Pratt took a barometric reading.
Bigelow's job - mapping air currents and taking precipitation and barometric readings - sometimes strikes him as absurd.
The most notable was the formula for conversion of barometric readings taken at different temperatures to 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
After nine months, she decided it was time for another barometric reading.
Combined with information from barometric readings which established elevation above sea level, topographic maps could be drawn.
A barometric reading of 951 mbar (28.11 inHg) was at the time the lowest ever measured on land in the United States.
However, certain barometric readings have considered that the depression may have become a tropical storm.
The barometric readings are in the mid-twenties as he approaches what should be the center of the storm.
The copilot calls out the barometric reading: Twenty-three.
Beatty invented the use of barometric readings to adjust flight paths en route over the Pacific, now a standard fuel conservation practice.