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The Lowest of the Lows … extremes of barometric pressure in the British Isles, part 1 – the deepest depressions

✍ Scribed by Stephen Burt

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
691 KB
Volume
62
Category
Article
ISSN
0043-1656

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✦ Synopsis

A reading of 922.5 mbar (corrected to MSL) was reported from Omagh in Co. Tyrone, about 90 km west of Belfast, at 13h (Buchanan 1886). Harding (1887, p 211) stated that "undoubtedly the position of that station was in the direct track of the centre, and at the time when the depression was at its deepest" but that the graduation and calibration of the barometer concerned were not considered satisfactory enough "to quote the reading as trustworthy".

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