A glass barometer makes a great conversation piece, a great gift, or the perfect addition to your home weather station. You can own a piece of meteorological history which is also a working instrument of quality, and a thing of true beauty.

Glass barometers are beautiful and functional scientific meteorological instruments that have been used to predict the weather since the year 1645. Early barometers were called by the name storm glass, due to their construction and ability to predict bad weather.

These beautiful hand-blown glass works of art predict the coming weather by the action of air pressure (or the lack of it) on the liquid within. A low water level signals high pressure and good weather. A high water level means a low pressure area is coming and so predicts stormy weather.

Glass barometers are a delightful, useful, and decorative addition to any home or office. They teach fundamental weather prediction principles just by watching them. These beautiful works of art also remind us of earlier and simpler times, when weather instruments were limited to these devices, weather vanes, thermometers, and an observer’s “weather eye.”

When you have a one of these beautiful barometers you will own a piece of weather predicting history, a working scientific instrument of quality, and a precison made item of true beauty: the glass barometer.