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Old February 1st 12, 07:50 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Graham P Davis Graham P Davis is offline
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Default Very large high pressure area

On 01/02/12 11:05, John Hall wrote:
I saw that too. But last night's (Monday's) "flat view" on Look East
really showed how big it is. Has there ever been one that large
before?

I recall reading that during February 1947 high pressure persistently
stretched all the way from Scandinavia to northern Canada, completely
reversing the normal wind direction at our latitude all the way across
the Atlantic.


Have a peek at http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/fsreaeur.html -
the "kartenarchiv" - at '47 and '62-3. Also '65, mid-January.

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