Weather gauge

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(Naut.)	The position of a ship to the windward of another.
	Fig.: A position of advantage or superiority; advantage in position.

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In this, they serve as almost a weather gauge, and sometimes it looks like it's going to pour, but it doesn't.

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Gallaudet addresses this directly in the document: "To stay ahead of our increasingly capable competitors, we cannot simply know the weather forecast, but we must secure the weather gauge. Our Navy must apply this age of sail concept to the 21st century battle space that extends from the sea floor to space."

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We use them as a weather gauge. As long as they remain just specks on the horizon we know that the weather will remain settled.

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So far this water year, the Eugene Airport weather gauge has recorded 39 inches of rain, versus 42 inches for a normal water year thus far.

Highs in low 90s expected this week

Who could have predicted that a slide rule, typewriter, telephone, weather gauge, camera, and watch would morph into the modern smartphone?

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They installed equipment including six high precision GPS systems, tide gauges, a time lapse camera and a weather gauge.

THAW POINT; Scientist left 'speechless' at rate of glacier break up

Dr Hubbard began the project in 2009 alongside Jason Box, of the Byrd Polar Research Centre at Ohio State University, when they installed equipment - including six high precision GPS systems, tide gauges, a time lapse camera and a weather gauge.

Scientist is speechless as glacier just turns to water; VAST GREENLAND ICE BLOCK MELTS AWAY IN TWO YEARS

Racecourse manager Margaret Fogarty said yesterday afternoon: "We were pleasantly surprised when we looked at the weather gauge in the morning and we had only 5mm of rain overnight, but the forecast is for torrential rain.

Cards under threat with heavy rain forecast

Smartphone developer High Tech Computer (HTC) introduced a completely revamped user interface (UI) on its latest smartphone running Google Android software, the HTC Hero, highlighting the importance companies see in making users love the software on their handset.<p>HTC's new UI software was designed so people can customize the handset to meet their own needs, from choosing a clock style to putting the most often used functions on the home screen, such as a Wi-Fi switch, weather gauge, or a widget for Twitter feeds or friends' Facebook status .

HTC puts new face on latest Google Android phone, Hero

Do we have the weather gauge with us?" I asked the sailor on the gangway.

Heave-ho and away we go... Reporter John gets a taste of life on the ocean waves

Conversely, if the summer sun is so blinding that they can not see it shining through their windscreen they can sneak a peek at the trusty weather gauge to know it is safe to goal fresco.

Looks wet, it could be rain! STEVE HUGHES rounds up the week's motoring news in a nutshell

The official weather gauge at the Eugene Airport inexplicably accumulated several decades of bad rainfall data before it was replaced in 1996, skewing the averages.