A couple of things from that publication that might be of interest.

1. I hadn't realised that the Hadley Centre maintained a separate site
for some of the long-period series that they maintain. Quite a lot of
useful stuff via:-

www.hadobs.org

(This was always available internally to the Met Office, but it's good
to see it presented to the general user).

2. Also, a letter from Stephen Burt, correcting the highest mslp
pressure known / accepted for the British Isles; rather than 1054.7mbar
which has been 'hard-wired' into just about every record-book you can
mention, Stephen has found out that an incorrect conversion was applied
to the original inHg figure for the Aberdeen observatory figure of 31st
January, 1902, and it *should* be 1053.6mbar.

Well worth getting hold of a copy of the appropriate issue (July 2006).

BTW, for anyone who hasn't taken the magazine for a while, or hasn't
come across it before, a subscription to 'Weather' is well worth the
money. Details via:-

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/booty.w...swfaq.htm#5B.2


Martin.


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Well worth getting hold of a copy of the appropriate issue (July 2006).

BTW, for anyone who hasn't taken the magazine for a while, or hasn't come
across it before, a subscription to 'Weather' is well worth the money.
Details via:-

And for those students out there, for only £27 you can become an Associate
Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society and receive an annual
subscription of Weather included (usually £42 pa alone). This is something I
took advantage of before graduating last week... :-)

Joe