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How does an old-fashioned barometer hint that a storm is on its way?

In old houses you sometimes find a barometer on the wall, a dial you tap that points to 'fair' or 'stormy'. It has no radio, no screen, and no connection to anything. Yet it can warn you a storm is on its way. How does an old-fashioned barometer hint that a storm is coming?

An old brass aneroid barometer, its dial marked stormy, rain, change, fair and very dry
Photo: T. S. & J. D. Negus · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons

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