Posted on 10/28/2010 7:55:01 AM PDT by DManA
The Minnesota State Climatology Office reported that “it appears that the minimum pressure … measured at Bigfork is the new record low pressure for a non-tropical storm in the Continental U.S. (excluding tornadoes).” For comparison, they also noted that the lowest pressure recorded in the “Edmund Fitzgerald storm” was 28.95 inches, and the lowest pressure record in the Armistice Day Storm was 28.55 inches.
This storm also set local records for low pressure at Duluth and International Falls, and a new Wisconsin state record set at Superior, which recorded a reading of 961.3 millibars, or 28.39 inches of mercury, at 11:15 a.m. Tuesday.
In general, the lower the pressure, the stronger the storm. A reading of 960 millibars is comparable to a Category 2 or 3 hurricane, although differences between storms here and storms in the tropics mean the Northland doesn’t see winds as strong as in hurricanes.
(Excerpt) Read more at duluthnewstribune.com ...
Should have included this in the exerpt:
The new record-holder for lowest barometric pressure is Bigfork in northern Itasca County, which recorded a pressure reading of 955.2 millibars, or 28.21 inches of mercury, at 5:13 p.m. Tuesday.
The new record-holder for lowest barometric pressure is Bigfork in northern Itasca County, which recorded a pressure reading of 955.2 millibars, or 28.21 inches of mercury, at 5:13 p.m. Tuesday.
I think we saw our strongest winds at around 2 AM this morning. That’s when the dog woke me up to register his concern.
Still pretty windy this morning.
Time to cue up Queen's "We Are The Champions"?
or Frank Zappa’s version of “Whipping Post.”
The article writers apparently didn’t get the memo: For the foreseeable future, all weather records should be attributed to anthropogenic climate change.
I don’t think I remember it ever being this windy for so long. If trees weren’t mostly bare, a lot of them would be down.
That ain’t nothing: they recorded 001 millibars in Al Franklen head
Dayton beats that with an actual vacuum in his head.
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