Mongolian conditions perfect for sky-high pressure readings www.thetimes.co.uk
A world weather record for high pressure may have been broken at the end of last year. An automatic weather station at Tsetsen-Uul in a valley in Mongolia recorded a provisional atmospheric pressure of 1094.3 millibars at midnight GMT on December 29, 2020. The previous confirmed world record was 1089.4 millibars on December 30, 2004 in Tosontsengel, also in Mongolia.
The recent high-pressure reading needs to be verified by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), but there is good reason to believe it is genuine. Several other weather stations in the region also recorded extremely high-pressure readings around the same time. And it was intensely cold, with the temperature at Tsetsen-Uul minus 45.5C at the time... READ MORE at the source
Published Date:2021-01-05