If you are like me and you want the latest and greatest trekking watch then you must first learn how to read a barometer on your watch properly. I just purchased the Casio climbing watch and I must say that I am quite impressed with the look. There are many features on it however which I needed to look into to make sure that I could use them correctly. One of those features is the barometer. It’s a tricky little sensor for those who have never used one before. It all gets pretty complicated if you research it too much so I thought I would help by giving you some tips so that you don’t have to bother.
With a watch from the Casio climbing watch range it is quite simple but you do need to know some basics for it. If you are using a different watch than that’s ok because I think most of them have some same sort of readings. Both the inch of mercury and pressure units are both used in North America and they are pretty standard. I think that first it is best to set it to inch of mercury units.
If it says that you have a reading of 30.50 inch of mercury or higher and it is either rising or falling than things are ok. The outlook is fine and if these a changing a little from here it means that you are in a sort of stable weather pattern. If you are around 29.25 inch of mercury or lower than you need to keep an eye on the weather. There should be rain around you and you can probably see it. If it is rising or on its way further down then you can expect heavier rain.
When using a watch like the PRW2500t-7 you can easily see the trend graph so you know what the pressure is doing. You can see what it was like and what it might be like in the future. That is why I like to look there. If you only have a numerical value then it is hard to tell whether the pressure is rising or falling. The beauty with ABC watches these days is that they have a warning alarm built-in so that it will tell you. Don’t think though that because of this it is useless to have an idea about the barometric pressure because you still need to. Sometime the storm alarm may not pick up the pressure change so it’s a good idea for you to keep an eye on it as well.
