it was first exhibited at the 1851 london exhibition.1851 lono it was graded by a man with another greatame, a name perfect for meteorology, doctor george meriwether. doctor meriwether who was a surgeon had come to decide or perhaps imagine that when there was an approaching storm, freshwater leeches seemed to get a little agitated, so he thought how can i harness this meteorology wise and what he does was built a device called the tempest prognosticator, which is the very device you ser before you. befor there is this circle of little jars into which a freshwater leech would be placed in each one. the jars would be connected a little wires to bells purely similar to the self mummified monks, i think about it, but the idea was that once a storm wasas approaching these leeches would shimmy and the little ropes with jingle and the belts would ringg and you would think i better take the washing in. [laughter] >> it did not so much work, which is why we have thermometers and barometers instead of tempest prognosticator's, which is a bit sad because look at this thing, but there is still a mo

we will check with andrew chip lono, with cloud, and cloud cover in place, the cloud really tried to this evening. i was hopeful to get nice sunset but lynn sending us this shot, beautiful skies even when they are gray. phil a beautiful sunset. this is sunrise this morning looking great there. and sunset, little cloudy but still managed to catch color in the the sky. i want to show you grabble we were showing you earlier, soft snow pellets through mess of the the day. the these form when super cooled water droplets adhere to the falling snowflake. it istive rent from sleet. you can see pellet structure of these snowflakes. ed connor send us this picture and john in bucks county send us this shot. it doesn't look like regular snow flakes but tiny little balls of snow, those little pellets that came from the sky earlier today. so pretty nice looking scene out there. we didn't see too much. not too much to slow down traffic, really across the area but definitely did feel like a winter day outside to take. here's what it is to go right now, storm scan three is showing our system a little

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