Related weather definitions from ABC Action News: • barometer – a device used to measure the atmosphere's barometric pressure at a given altitude. • barometric pressure – the weight of the air above a given location from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere.
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Place: Eastern U.S. Year: 1958 Event: (19th-22nd) Virginia to New England had 17 to 30 inches of very wet snow. Forty-nine deaths linked to snow; also damage to power lines. Eight hundred people trapped in restaurant along PA turnpike near Morgantown.
Place: Charleston, WV Year: 1990 Event: Two inches of snow. Five days before, the high had reached 89 degrees.
