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Old January 15th 11, 07:27 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default Forget Millibars

On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 11:30:21 -0000, "Will Hand"
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"John Hall" wrote in message
.. .
In article ,
Phil Layton writes:
It looks like the aviation standard will become hectopascals before the
year is out...

Much easier to say :-(


Some of us are still struggling to forget inches of mercury.


Good grief! They went out in the Stone Age.


But merkin pilots still use inches (29.92" = 1013mb standard)

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