That’s a record! London Heathrow just experienced its highest barometric pressure in more than 300 years of recordkeeping!
According to UK climatology expert Stephen Burt (Department of Meteorology, University of Reading), the mean sea level barometric pressure at Heathrow Airport reached 1049.6 mb (30.99”) at midnight GMT Sunday night (7 p.m. EST). Not only is this a record for Heathrow, beating 1047.3 mb from February 7, 1964, but it’s also the highest barometric…