MACON, Ga. — High pressure and low pressure systems dictate most of the weather in Central Georgia. To measure pressure in the atmosphere meteorologists use a barometer. If you split the word ...

While there’s no shortage of options when it comes to getting the weather forecast these days, barometers allow you to do so with a bit more class and style than simply checking the weather channel.

A barometer is like a huge bathroom scale that weighs the air around us. If the scale reads a large number, say above 30 inches of mercury, it means we have high pressure, or "heavy air." This ...