The weather house is a folk art device in the form of a small German or Alpine chalet that shows the weather. The typical weather house has two doors side by side. The left side has a girl or woman, right side male or male. The female figure comes out of the house when the weather is sunny and dry, while the men come out to show the rain.
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Description
In fact, weather houses function as hygrometer decorated with folk art. Male and female figures climb into the balance bar, which is postponed by a piece of catgut or hair. The bowel relaxes or diminishes based on humidity in the surrounding air, relaxing when the air is wet and tense when the air is dry. This action swung one figure or another out of the house depending on the humidity. Some variants serve as a barometer: low pressure indicates incorrect weather (rain), good high pressure (sunny weather).
Weather homes are associated in popular minds with Austria, Germany or Switzerland, and are often decorated in cock-style clocks. Many weather homes also contain small thermometers in the space between the two doors that hide the intestinal suspension, and many also contain piggy banks. In contrast, the term "weather house" in the United States refers to buildings built by the US Signal Service and then the US Weather Bureau to place the Weather Channel instruments and Weather Observers so they can do their work. For more information, see the U.S. Weather Bureau.
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Cultural effects
An English-language comic opera called Weather or No, about the male and female characters at home in love, became popular when played as a companion section for The Mikado in 1896- 97.
The Brollys is an animated television series about a boy who is magically transported every night to the weather house on his bedroom wall.
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Source of the article : Wikipedia
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