On Monday, 24 September 2012 19:17:21 UTC+1, Ilsington wrote:
On Monday, September 24, 2012 7:09:33 PM UTC+1, haaark wrote:

I get cross enough when some weatherbimbette reading off an autocue



says that a deep depression in July is "unusual for the time of year",



but when Peter Gibbs, who really ought to know better, says the same



thing on the 6.30 pm forecast today my blood starts to boil.



If a really deep low is unusual in late September when is it going to



be usual?. Will he be repeating the same mantra in December?.



The only reason I can think of is that the public is being softened up



to believe that AGW is the reason for any weather event, unusual or



not.



Any thoughts?.



FFor the record the low is expected to deepen to 975hPa and be bang over the UK. That is unusual, although of course not without precedence. If the low was in the mid Atlantic then it would not be so unusual


Wasn't expecting to find this, but looking at my records back to 1978 the lowest barometric pressure for September was 987.1mb on the 12th 2008. This morning I got down to 983.9mb, so the record has been broken for me here at Southend-on-Sea. Looking at John Benfords records 985.4mb was recoded in 1974.

Keith (Southend)
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