AN INTERESTING AMERICAN CAST ALLOY WEATHER FORECASTERIRVINE P. KRICK, PASADENA CA, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 20th CENTURYThe metal frame with insetpass next to inscription Weather Guide, METEOLOGICAL STANDARD over seven windows inset with illtrations of differing cloud types with descriptions of each next to aperture annotated with eightpass points for wind direction over knurled turn handle for aligning arrows next to the wind direction for each cloud type, which in-turn reveals weather prediction in an aperture to the top of the instrument, the rear with six further panels with additional examples of the cloud types beneath instructions and inscribed COPYRIGHT 1949 - PAT. PEND, IRVING P. KRICK, PASADENA. CALIFORNIA; together with a circular card forecasting calculator inscribed THE DAILY WEATHER GUIDE, PRODUCED & COPYRIGHT BY, D. & K. BARTLETT, THE LONG RANGE WEATHER EXPERTS to centre and utilising a similar system to predict weather as Irvine Krick's forecaster, (2).The alloy forcaster 27cm (10.625ins) high, 7cm (2.75ins) wide; the card forecaster 22cm (8.75ins) diameter.Provenance: The exhibition collection of Barometer World Meum, Merton, Devon.Irvine P. Krick (1906-1996) was a meteorologist and inventor who provided the forecasts for the Normandy landings in 1944. He was the founding Professor of the Department of Meteorology at California Institute of Technology and was a controversial pioneer of long-term weather forecasting.