Heebie Jeebies Teardrop Fitzroy’s Storm Glass: The storm glass was popularized by Admiral Robert Fitzroy after his historic voyage on the HMS Beagle. The Teardrop Storm Glass comes with a stand, making it a wonderful gift.

How the Storm Glassworks is still a mystery, but it is believed that electromagnetic changes in weather patterns activate the crystals inside (sealed glass chamber fill with crystals when air pressure decreases).

This is a gorgeous decorative gift idea for the adult who has everything or someone who finds meteorology fascinating.

The storm glass was popularized by Admiral Robert Fitzroy after his historic voyage on the HMS Beagle. The teardrop storm glass comes with a stand, making it a wonderful gift.

Ever wanted to know when to bring an umbrella along and when to leave it at home? Now you can! The Fitzroy Storm Glass is a historical weather forecast device, once used by seafarers to predict oncoming storms. Developed on the premise that temperature and pressure directly correlate to solubility use either results in a clear liquid or crystal formation as the weather changes.

The unique liquid inside the sealed tear drop responds to changes in the weather, allowing the observer to forecast the possibility of storms, snow, wind, rain or clear skies. Although modern meteorology is far more accurate, these elegant glasses still hold aesthetic appeal.

Fitzroy spent years carefully documenting how the specific mixture inside the storm glass would respond to changes in the weather:

If the liquid in the glass is clear, the weather will be bright and clear.

If the liquid is cloudy, the weather will be cloudy as well, perhaps with precipitation.

If there are small dots in the liquid, humid or foggy weather can be expected.

A cloudy glass with small stars indicates thunderstorms.

If the liquid contains small stars on sunny winter days, then snow is coming.

If there are large flakes throughout the liquid, it will be overcast in temperate seasons or snowy in the winter.

If there are crystals at the bottom, this indicates frost.

If there are threads near the top, it will be windy.

This Tear Drop Storm Glass comes with an elegant stand, making it a wonderful gift and a conversational room ornament.