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"Meteo" means weather in english, right?Pax is right, the T-Touch "Meteo" measures barometric pressure in hectoPascals, also called millibars. That is ultimately my only complaint is that I can't switch the units to inches of mercury on the watch like I can with my Suuntos, Nike and Casios, though my Citizen Aquamount is also in hPa. I know meteorologists use millibars as a standard, but I guess I am old fashioned :)
How does this bad boy tell the weather?
... or does 'meteo' refer to something else?
1013 hPa (mb) = 29.92 inHg = 1 atmosphere at sea level. The T-Touch, Nike and Aquamount measure absolute pressure which means the reading will vary with altitude, lower value with altitude increase. The Suunto Core, Vector and Casios allow you to adjust the barometric pressure to sea level equivalent, which is what you get from your airport/weather station/TV news. What is more important than the actual reading is the barometric trend. The T-Touch shows baro trend by position of the hands, straight up at 12 means pressure is steady, weather is unchanging, to the right of 12 means the pressure is increasing (usually fair weather), to the left of 12 means the pressure is dropping (usually indicating a storm is on the way). It is a very clear way of judging the weather trend, and pretty clever IMHO. The Suuntos and use a little arrow on the main screen and the Citizen an arrow in the upper LCD. The Core, Nike and Casios have baro trend graphs.
I have been really enjoying my ABC (altitude/baro/compass) watches through the summer camping season, and I have plenty more Scout events to go. We are booked every weekend through November, my ABC's will get plenty of usehand6.gif
Cheers,
Griff