Weather house

A weather house is a two-door miniature house, indicating by a simple mechanism, the existing weather.

Function

The cottage is the traditional form of a hygrometer, in which, depending on the humidity in each one of two figures out of the house looking out, while the other disappears in it. Most here is the woman ( "Sun Woman " ) for good, the man ( "Rain Man ", with umbrella ) for bad weather. For this purpose the pieces are mounted on a rotatable disc which is pulled by a spring in one direction. For the opposing force and actual deflection a piece of animal intestines or a hair strand provides (usually horse hair ), which are highly sensitive to moisture. In order for a weather house works correctly, it must be installed outdoors.

In many weather house thermometer is also attached, which they represent a precursor of the weather station.