Mexican Weather Barometer

As seen in the courtyard of the Museo del Queso y Vino (Museum of Cheese and Wine) in Tequisquiapan:

A "Barometer of Bad Weather", whose key functional unit is the cow tail.

I have got to find myself one of these. In case it’s not very clear from the pic, the “measurement” part of this barometer is the cow’s tail, which is a piece of rope. The translation:

• If the cow has a dry tail: good weather
• If she has a wet tail: rain
• If she has a frozen tail: snow
• If you can’t see her: fog
• If the tail is moving: wind
• If it falls down: earthquake

This reminds me of home, because this is exactly the kind of thing a Nebraskan farmer’s wife would display outside her house. LOVE IT.