WeatherStick
Alex Wei
December 8, 2013
iPhone App, Weather
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Summary
- WeatherStick – (Free until AppStore hits 1 billion downloads download and help reach a billion!)Weather sticks have been used for centuri… – More…
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- LicenseFree
- version1
- File Size0.7 MB
- Realese17-Apr-09
- DeveloperCatamount Software
- O.S.Requires iOS 2.2 or later. Compatible with iPhone.
Description
- details(Free until AppStore hits 1 billion downloads download and help reach a billion!)Weather sticks have been used for centuries to accurately predict the weather by Abenaki Indians. Abenaki Indians lived in what is now Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and south eastern Canada.Typically, a weather stick is a balsam fir rod about 16″ long. The stick will turn upwards when good weather is approaching and downwards as inclement weather approaches.”Dampness causes wood to twist or warp. The wood used to construct a weather stick is from a tree whose branches differ in density between the top and bottom of the branch. Wood, as the product of a living organism, is made of cells. In green wood, these cells are filled with liquid. In dry wood, however, the cells have lost their moisture, shrunk, and left air pockets between them, the reason why a dry piece of wood is much lighter than a green or a waterlogged piece. Differential swelling is what causes the branch to bend under certain conditions,…
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