"Phil Layton" wrote :
Looks like my 2006 HP High will get smashed next weekend with1045+mb on
the charts
2006 HP 22 Jan 06 1037.7 mb

This week's spell probably produced the highest pressure over England since
January 1992. Provisionally, the highest recognised sea-level pressure is
something between 1046.0 and 1046.5, and may have been recorded
at Little Rissington, Hereford/Credenhill, or Sennybridge (yes, I know, it's
in Wales) around 22/23z on the 21st or 10/11z on the 22nd.

If someone on a quiet night duty with access to the hourlies can have
a quick look and either post here or e-mail me privately, I'd be very
grateful.

Philip

"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message


This week's spell probably produced the highest pressure over England since
January 1992. Provisionally, the highest recognised sea-level pressure is
something between 1046.0 and 1046.5, and may have been recorded
at Little Rissington, Hereford/Credenhill, or Sennybridge (yes, I know, it's
in Wales) around 22/23z on the 21st or 10/11z on the 22nd.

If someone on a quiet night duty with access to the hourlies can have
a quick look and either post here or e-mail me privately, I'd be very
grateful.

Philip

Sennybridge 1046.3 at 2200Z and 2300Z.

Jon.

PS What's a quiet night duty ? ;-)




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"Jon O Rourke" wrote in message
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"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message


This week's spell probably produced the highest pressure over England since
January 1992. Provisionally, the highest recognised sea-level pressure is
something between 1046.0 and 1046.5, and may have been recorded
at Little Rissington, Hereford/Credenhill, or Sennybridge (yes, I know, it's
in Wales) around 22/23z on the 21st or 10/11z on the 22nd.

If someone on a quiet night duty with access to the hourlies can have
a quick look and either post here or e-mail me privately, I'd be very
grateful.

Philip

Sennybridge 1046.3 at 2200Z and 2300Z.

Jon.

PS What's a quiet night duty ? ;-)


He's living in the past when there were such things Jon. Used to get 3 hours kip
when I was a lad :-)

Will.
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Thanks guys, that was all very interesting. Can I buy the Weather journal
without having to subscribe to a years worth ?

Fred


"Stephen Burt" wrote in message
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Martin Rowley wrote:
... I believe that the Scottish record is also still the British Isles
record: I have the following ....

1054.9 mbar at Coupar Angus, Perthshire on 31st January, 1902.

(Quoted by Philip Eden in 2003, from a list prepared by Stephen Burt)

Martin.

Tch Martin. And I know you read my note in July's Weather because you
mentioned it in this very newsgroup!

Scottish and British Isles record is 1053.6 mbar at Aberdeen
Observatory at 2200 GMT on 31 January 1902. The record was previously
incorrectly quoted for over 80 years as 1054.7 mbar, owing to the use
of an incorrect conversion value from inches of mercury to millibars.

The England and Wales record is 1053.1 mbar, not as you might expect
somewhere in northern England on the above date, but at Falmouth
Observatory in Cornwall 11h on 28 January 1905.

Highest values on record for the London area (over 200 years record)
are 1049.1 mbar at Kew Observatory at 11h on 18 January 1882, 1048.4
mbar at Greenwich on 9 Jan 1825 and 1048.3 mbar at Camden Square on
28/29 Jan 1905. Within the last 100 years the highest has been 1047.3
mbar at Heathrow at 0900 GMT on 7 February 1964.

Philip is correct - look out for the January and February issues of
Weather for much more information and synoptic descriptions of these
events and other extremes of barometric pressure in the British Isles
and North Atlantic.

Stephen

"Jon O Rourke" wrote in message
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"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message


This week's spell probably produced the highest pressure over England
since
January 1992. Provisionally, the highest recognised sea-level pressure
is
something between 1046.0 and 1046.5, and may have been recorded
at Little Rissington, Hereford/Credenhill, or Sennybridge (yes, I know,
it's
in Wales) around 22/23z on the 21st or 10/11z on the 22nd.

If someone on a quiet night duty with access to the hourlies can have
a quick look and either post here or e-mail me privately, I'd be very
grateful.


Sennybridge 1046.3 at 2200Z and 2300Z.

Thanks, Jon. Much obliged.

p

"Stephen Burt" wrote in message
Tch Martin. And I know you read my note in July's Weather because you
mentioned it in this very newsgroup!

Scottish and British Isles record is 1053.6 mbar at Aberdeen
Observatory at 2200 GMT on 31 January 1902. The record was previously
incorrectly quoted for over 80 years as 1054.7 mbar, owing to the use
of an incorrect conversion value from inches of mercury to millibars.

.... yes, time to crawl away and die I think. The really annoying thing
is that I had the corrected information in some of my files and not
others - something inside was screaming at me to go and check, but
.......

Martin.

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Can I buy the Weather journal
without having to subscribe to a years worth ?

I don't think so.
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Martin Rowley wrote:
... yes, time to crawl away and die I think. The really annoying thing
is that I had the corrected information in some of my files and not
others - something inside was screaming at me to go and check, but
......

Martin.

It's Christmas, I'll forgive you :-) Just this time only, mind. Can't
have your normal high standards being allowed to slip just any old time
.... ;-)