"Graham P Davis" wrote :
"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote:
"Graham P Davis" wrote :
John Hall wrote:
Philip Eden writes:
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The main anomaly centres we
-19mbar over Novaya Zemlya and Finland
-9mbar over the Labrador coast
+9mbar over the Atlantic between Ireland and the Azores
+8mbar in the central Mediterranean

That -19mbar anomaly seems remarkably large. Does it represent any sort
of a record?

January and February 1963 both had anomalies of a little more than +30
over
Iceland.

Well, Jan '63 did, but not February. There was a -30mbar anomaly
south of Iceland in February 1990. In January 1983 the anomalies
ranged from -24mbar SE of Iceland to +18mbar in Biscay.


My memory must be playing tricks again. I was sure the charts I'd seen had
similar anomalies for both months. It's only about 35 years since I last
saw them so I can't think why I got it wrong. Mind you, I've been quoting
this "fact" for the past 34 years so perhaps it was short-term memory-loss
that was to blame.

I'll draw up the charts and post them when I have some
spare time (short supply these days) ... I'm sure there'd
be quite a wide interest in them. Feb 1963 was actually
quite synoptically diverse ... highest pressure near
Iceland during the opening days, then the Baltic or
northern Scandinavia, briefly the Azores (shock, horror),
but over central Europe during the last week.

Philip