I had a reading here in S Yorks of 956mb at around 1500

Does any one have any lower, what was the lowest recorded in the UK?

Incidentally this reading is only 1mb higher that the reading I got in THAT
storm 20 years ago, but the pressure gradient was far less this time thank
goodness

B99

"Bingo99" wrote in
:

Incidentally this reading is only 1mb higher that the reading I got in
THAT storm 20 years ago, but the pressure gradient was far less this
time thank goodness

Quite - Sky last night were saying that the storm had pressure as low as
the 1987 storm, to make a big thing of it. There's a big difference between
a filling 955mb and a rapidly deepening 955mb !

Richard

On 10 Mar, 19:51, Richard Dixon wrote:
"Bingo99" wrote :

Incidentally this reading is only 1mb higher that the reading I got in
THAT storm 20 years ago, but the pressure gradient was far less this
time thank goodness

Quite - Sky last night were saying that the storm had pressure as low as
the 1987 storm, to make a big thing of it. There's a big difference between
a filling 955mb and a rapidly deepening 955mb !

Richard

.... hate to wreck a good story, but the October 1987 storm was
*filling* as it crossed the country ... It reached its deepest, around
953 mbar, well south of Cornwall at midnight GMT and cleared the east
coast shortly before 0600 at 959 mbar. The speed of movement and the
tighter pressure gradient, particularly to its south, were responsible
for the much stronger winds, rather than the depth of the depression
or its change in central pressure ...

--
Stephen Burt
Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire

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On 10 Mar, 19:51, Richard Dixon wrote:
"Bingo99" wrote
:

Incidentally this reading is only 1mb higher that the reading I got in
THAT storm 20 years ago, but the pressure gradient was far less this
time thank goodness

Quite - Sky last night were saying that the storm had pressure as low as
the 1987 storm, to make a big thing of it. There's a big difference
between
a filling 955mb and a rapidly deepening 955mb !

Richard

... hate to wreck a good story, but the October 1987 storm was
*filling* as it crossed the country ... It reached its deepest, around
953 mbar, well south of Cornwall at midnight GMT and cleared the east
coast shortly before 0600 at 959 mbar. The speed of movement and the
tighter pressure gradient, particularly to its south, were responsible
for the much stronger winds, rather than the depth of the depression
or its change in central pressure ...


Hate to wreck a good story, but ... the strongest winds are now thought to
be a consequence of a "sting jet".

:-))

Will
--

wrote in
:

... hate to wreck a good story, but the October 1987 storm was
*filling* as it crossed the country ... It reached its deepest, around
953 mbar, well south of Cornwall at midnight GMT and cleared the east
coast shortly before 0600 at 959 mbar. The speed of movement and the
tighter pressure gradient, particularly to its south, were responsible
for the much stronger winds, rather than the depth of the depression
or its change in central pressure ...

Slapped wrist for Dixon - used a bad example and I should know better
having looked at filling/deepening rates of historical windstorms!

1987 is an enigma for rapidly deepening windstorms - and yes it did fill
quite slowly over the UK (unlike the current storm) didn't it!! If you look
at rapidly deepening statistics it's not up there along the likes of other
storms (e.g. Lothar over France from 26 Dec 1999, Burns Day Storm).

Referring to Will's follow-up, my feeling is that the slow steady
development and also slow filling post-rapid deepening allowed enough time
for the bent-back warm front/cold frontal fracture to remain in place for a
longer period of time than normal to allow a sting jet to descend: (and
maybe hence the enigmatic behaviour).

Richard

Will seems to have emerged from his bunker complete with tin hat

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On 10 Mar, 19:51, Richard Dixon wrote:
"Bingo99" wrote
:

Incidentally this reading is only 1mb higher that the reading I got in
THAT storm 20 years ago, but the pressure gradient was far less this
time thank goodness

Quite - Sky last night were saying that the storm had pressure as low as
the 1987 storm, to make a big thing of it. There's a big difference
between
a filling 955mb and a rapidly deepening 955mb !

Richard

... hate to wreck a good story, but the October 1987 storm was
*filling* as it crossed the country ... It reached its deepest, around
953 mbar, well south of Cornwall at midnight GMT and cleared the east
coast shortly before 0600 at 959 mbar. The speed of movement and the
tighter pressure gradient, particularly to its south, were responsible
for the much stronger winds, rather than the depth of the depression
or its change in central pressure ...

--
Stephen Burt
Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire

Interesting, I heard that the 87 storm deepened as it passed over East
Anglia deepening to 952mb before weakening thereafter.

957.4mb @ 13:15 Birchwood, Warrington


"Bingo99" wrote in message
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I had a reading here in S Yorks of 956mb at around 1500

Does any one have any lower, what was the lowest recorded in the UK?

Incidentally this reading is only 1mb higher that the reading I got in
THAT storm 20 years ago, but the pressure gradient was far less this time
thank goodness

B99