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A '''weather stick''' is a traditional means of weather prediction used by some [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native Americans]]. It consists of a [[balsam fir]] or [[birch]] rod mounted outdoors which twists upwards in low [[humidity]] and downwards in high-humidity environments. These sticks were first used by the [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native Americans]] of the American northeast and the Canadian east and southeast, who noted the behavior of dry branches before the arrival of weather changes. The weather stick is a rare example of a weather prediction tool that predates the mercury [[barometer]]{{Citation needed|date=May 2009}}<!-- The mercury barometer was invented during 1644. Balsam fir has been around prior to the late Paleocene and the early Miocene. In the history of the Abenaki, who have been listed as users of this type of forecasting, in 1614, Thomas Hunt captured 24 young Abenaki people and took them to England. So, the tribe predates the mercury barometer. The question really is, when did the Abenaki notice the correspondence between the lift and fall of the branches, and the short term weather forecast? The Native American name for the weather stick is: Wintaka. --> | A '''weather stick''' is a traditional means of weather prediction used by some [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native Americans]]. It consists of a [[balsam fir]] or [[birch]] rod mounted outdoors which twists upwards in low [[humidity]] and downwards in high-humidity environments. These sticks were first used by the [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native Americans]] of the American northeast and the Canadian east and southeast, who noted the behavior of dry branches before the arrival of weather changes. The weather stick is a rare example of a weather prediction tool that predates the mercury [[barometer]]{{Citation needed|date=May 2009}}<!-- The mercury barometer was invented during 1644. Balsam fir has been around prior to the late Paleocene and the early Miocene. In the history of the Abenaki, who have been listed as users of this type of forecasting, in 1614, Thomas Hunt captured 24 young Abenaki people and took them to England. So, the tribe predates the mercury barometer. The question really is, when did the Abenaki notice the correspondence between the lift and fall of the branches, and the short term weather forecast? The Native American name for the weather stick is: Wintaka. --> | ||
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