A new world record for high air pressure has provisionally been set in a high mountain valley in Mongolia.An automatic weather station in
Tsetsen-Uul, western Zavkhan province, recorded a mean sea-level pressure of
1,094.3 millibars along with bitter temperatures of
-45.5C (50F).
If verified, it will top the previous world record of 1089.4 millibars also set in Mongolia exactly 16 years ago on Dec. 30.
Stephen Burt, a research fellow in meteorology at the University of Reading, told
The Independent: "This looks as if it's a genuine record, it's from an official synoptic reporting station.
"There are other stations that are reporting very high pressures as well. So this isn't just a reading error or a transmission error.
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