Barometric numbers??

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Originally Posted by twistedtails

High pressures bring heat and lows bring cool. Just thought I would add that.

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Originally Posted by Eventide

Not necessarily. It depends on where the highs are located with respect to warm/cool air, large bodies of water, etc.

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Quite right! Some of the Semi-permanent High pressure systems will contain very cold air. One such system is the Lake Baikal High in Russia. ;)

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Originally Posted by BLong7211

They say that when the pressure drops that is a good time to pair females up with males. Something to do with the pressure makes them breeder better.

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BPs do seem to respond to dropping pressure & frontal passage. It seems to kick them into breeding. Also a good rainshower/thunderstorm works- this suggests they may respond to atmospheric ionization as well as pressure change. ;)

Makes sense to me! One of my friends has a bunch of Tokay geckos, and when it rains in the spring, they start calling like mad. :D

Many reptiles are sensitive to drops in barometric pressure as it usually is a sign of rains and natural cycles. The dessert tortoise in our local desserts is begins digging bowls in the ground days before the very infrequent rains to capture and soak in it for many months of storage.

In Africa ball pythons breed during the rainy season. So in captive breeding you want to take advantage of natural triggers.

Gregg Graziani said on RR that during the droughts in Florida he had about 100 females that should have laid and never did which he attributed to the lack of rain. The only enviromental element he couldnt control.