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I bought this kind of as a novelty item, but it works pretty well. The translated instructions were a little hard to understand, but I figured it out and now it sits on my mantle and keeps pretty good track of high and low weather pressure.

No English instructions. It's a guess whether this will work or not. Trying to get it ready by looking at the pictures.

My grandmother had a water barometer (the swan type) above the kitchen sink when I was a kid growing up on the coast. We relied on it to easily know when storms were coming — very helpful. Really loving this one. Works great! I don't check the weather app nearly as much because a quick glance at this barometer tells me when weather changes will occur soon. Low pressure fronts come before storms. So this barometer will give you a few hours warning and also tell you how bad the storm will be (high water level = big storm on the way). I like that it graphically displays barometric pressure. Getting numbers isn't nearly as useful as seeing the water expand and rise because the atmospheric pressure is low. It was a bit of a hassle to fill. Needed to to put in a syringe full of water and then tip the barometer over (with finger over the hole) to get the water into the bulb. Have to repeat a bunch of times to get the bulb filled 40-50% with water. Mine came with only yellow dye. Wanted it red like my grandmother's swan barometer, so I just used some food coloring.

Well firstly it was a lot smaller than i expected after filling it with blue dye and water it started leaking. Couldn't see any crack or split but it was leaking. Instructions were in Chinese only. Would probably look somewhere else for a glass that works.

The glass is very thin and irregular shaped, but the barometer actually works! The spout rises and falls according to the weather. I used black food dye instead of the packets it came with. Super cool weather glass!