Millibars are SI units.
1 millibar = 0.0295333727 inches of mercury.
Your old one is in inches of mercury. SI is a little more accurate but overall functionally the same.
I haven’t noticed the weather idiots talking about millibars but then again once they signed on to AGW I stopped listening to them and now read my own maps from intellicast.
National Weather Service still reports barometric pressure in inches.
The weather report has been dumbed-down, just like most of the news.
BTW, it’s 1056 millibars here today, whatever that means...
I was brought up on both.
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I measure everything in my own unique way.
I deal with progressive idiologues in some of my hobbies.
I’ve noticed they throw metric units around in conversation like a social climber drops names - to impress.
Standard air pressure is 29.92 in Hg or 1013.25Mb of pressure or 1 Bar.
When did the toilet paper rolls become much narrower that the holders.
And the cardboard go from thick and sturdy to thin as paper?
Been a long time since I saw a roll of TP that didnt wobble due to the core being deformed.
Not long after that, you started seeing metric units on cereal boxes and soda cans, etc. But really, apart from one and two liter soda bottles, what metric unit does anyone in the U.S. actually know or care about?
How many kilos do you weigh? How many liters of gas does your car hold? How many kilometers is it to work?
Almost 40 years later, and despite the efforts of the moron education establishment, the answer, with a few exceptions, is, "Who gives a crap?"
Millibars? Please. Give it to me in inches of Hg, Jacques.
I suspect it’s because, with satellites, the barometer now is far less important as a predictor of storms.
Also, millibars is Metric, so this is a way to promote the values of the French Revolution and Globalism.
I, also, live in Oregon.
That Weather thingy that you have hanging on your wall will give you an idea of the weather to come.
It doesn’t really matter what it says (calibration not needed). What really matters is the amount of change. I keep a daily log with the high/low temps, amount of rain in the last 24 hours, and barometetric pressure (by my scale). After a few decades in my present location, I can, actually, out-guess the professional weather-guessers.
Wish the best to you.
Sorry, forgot to mention:
A “Milli-Bar” is a unit of atmospheric pressure equal to one thousandth of a bar. Standard atmospheric pressure at sea level (around 14.7 lbs/square inch) is about 1,013 millibars.
You are right, the local weatherman rarely mentions barometric pressure. They just talk about a “High” or “Low” pressure system moving through the region...blah, blah, blah.
Again, wish you well.
See link below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Roman_units_of_measurement
The basis of the meter is as below: Spock would say, “This is logical.”
http://www.surveyhistory.org/the_standard_meter1.htm
If you really want confusion follow the link below to the basis of the pound weight.
http://www.dozenalsociety.org.uk/history/poundhist.html
How about grams? one cubic centimeter of water at standard temperature and pressure. That easy!
The sooner the English system of measurement and weight and temperature is confined to the dust bin of history the better. The French do not do much right but when it comes to weights and measure they got it right.
Miles per hour is just as insane. However, knots per hour is logical as it is based on one minute of arc measured at the equator. Unfortunately I think we are stuck with 360 degrees as the units for the earth and when it comes to time the insane idea hours minutes and seconds. A logical measure of time would be a ten hour day with each hour repesenting 2.4 of our present hours and each hour of that ten hour day split into 100 minutes and each minute to consist of 100 seconds. They would be called deci-hours and milli hours.
The French screwed up when it came to the measurement of temperature as the concept of absolute zero did not exist. Actually absolute zero can not be measured due to the fact of measuring it would then involve the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and the act of measurement would change the temperature of the object being measured. That aside I assure you it is damn cold.
Also aside zero should be zero on the Kelvin scale which is minus 273 degrees Celsius. A logical unit of scale would be
zero kelvin to zero Celsius defined by 0 to 100. Thus 100 units from absolute zero to the freezing point of water and this would involve no phase changes.
Spock would approve!
Some years ago we had a Mars probe that missed the planet or perhaps hit the planet instead of going into orbit. The reason this happened is an error in conversion from English to Metric in the calculations of the trajectory and entry to orbit and subsequent landing on Mars. The probe performed perfectly as programmed. It was programmed with garbage units of measurement and speed. “Garbage in Garbage out.”
Our space program blew many tens of millions of dollars due to an archaic method of measuring distance and speed.
Spock would not approve!!!
However the absolute best and logical systems of weights, distance and temperature would be based on the angstrom unit which is the diameter of a hydrogen atom and the weight of the hydrogen atom and the heat required to raise the temperature of hydrogen from zero to freezing point of hydrogen in units of 100 from absolute zero to the freezing point of hydrogen thus avoiding phase changes.
Time is a little more difficult, as our present time is based on the time it takes the earth to rotate about the sun. A logical basis of time would be the half life of tritium. The unstable isotope of hydrogen.
Using hydrogen as a basis of weight, distance and time is uniform throughout the universe. If we ever receive a signal from another intelligence in the universe its will be based on this. I would rather hope they preface their signal with a few dots that represent the number of fingers they have, if they have fingers. It would be a shame to interpret the signals as base ten when they were base 4 base 6 base 8 base 12 etc.
Did I mention that I do not like our system of measurements?
Captain Kirk: “Warp 12 Mr. Sulu.”
Mr. Sulu: “Captain, how many Angstroms is 1 Warp.”
Captain Kirk: “Ask Spock.”
Mr. Sulu muttering to himself: “Idiot, one day the Enterprise will be mine and Spock's.
About 20 - 25 years ago the international aviation community converted from altimeter settings, altitude above sea level derived from a barometer, to hectopascals altitude above sea level derived from millibars. Funny thing is, while the source of the setting used in determining attitude changed to a metric source altitude is still generally reported in feet.
There are variations throughout the world. I believe that Russia uses meters for its assigned altitudes.
Different means of measurement just adds confusion. Personally, for the aviation community, I would prefer on system of measurement. Pick it out, nautical miles, kilometers, feet, meters, just standardize it.
The EPA has decreed that any measurement based on the deadly toxic heavy metal mercury shall never again be used in the USSA.
It’s for the children.