To: steveegg
Lowest recorded pressure in the US was something like 857, in a hurricane that passed over the kesy in the 30's, I think.
To: cschroe
Jeff Head dug up a list of the most-intense tropical storms (
link). The Labor Day Hurricane hit at 892 mb, Gilbert was measured at 888 mb, and Typhoon Tip over in the Pacific holds the measured record at 870 mb.
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08/28/2005 12:54:35 PM PDT by
steveegg
(Real torture is taking a ride with Sen Ted "Swimmer" Kennedy in a 1968 Oldsmobile off a short bridge)
To: cschroe
The Keys hurricane of 1935 did have the lowest barometric pressure of any recorded over land in the US, it was 26.35 inches or 892 millibars. Here is a
link At 902, we are getting in range -- but I doubt it this time. The keys are mostly over water. Metacumbe Key is only few miles wide.
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