barometric
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I came to think she had a constant storm inside of her, and because of that she created storms outside, as if to maintain equal barometric pressure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
Many people who get either type of headache note that they can occur during sudden shifts in barometric pressure when the weather changes.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2024
The wind and rain mayhem from San Francisco Bay south to Monterey Bay on Tuesday was caused by an extraordinary drop in barometric pressure over the eastern Pacific that meteorologists described as “explosive cyclogenesis.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2023
The Gulf acts like a huge bathtub, and when strong storms enter into this region, they help lift up the water due to low barometric pressure.
From Scientific American • Sep. 27, 2022
A side effect of the surgery, he discovered early in the Everest climb, was that the low barometric pressure that exists at high altitude caused his eyesight to fail.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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