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Weather forecasting apparatus

US4218755A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJun 19, 1978
Grant dateAug 19, 1980
Priority date
Expiry dateJun 19, 1998

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01W1/10
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Weather forecasting apparatus for producing a visual indication of a weather forecast in response to supplied information, with such supplied information including current weather conditions, current wind speed and wind direction, geographical region information, and season of the year information. The apparatus includes a keyboard upon which such information may be entered, encoders for encoding the information, a display section for lighting one of a plurality of lamps to indicate forecasted weather, and read only memory elements having a plurality of memory locations for storing weather forecast data and for supplying the weather forecast data to the display section from memory locations specified by the coded data. Temperature and relative humidity detecting circuitry may also be included in the apparatus for providing a visual indication of the current temperature and current relative humidity.

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