WORLD WIDE EXTREMES IN SEA LEVEL CORRECTED PRESSURE
[Source: World Weather Extremes, 1985
Geographic Sciences Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories,
Ft. Belvoir, VA]
[Addnl Sources: Moran & Morgan, 1997 p. 501; ESSA, 1969, p. 27 - See Mather, p 43]
 
  [mb] [in Hg] PLACE ELEV. [m] DATE
           
HIGHEST          
World 1083.8  32.01  Agata, USSR 263  31 DEC 1968
North America 1074.8  31.74  Northway, AK 526  31 JAN 1989
  1067.6  31.53  Mayo, Yukon, Terr.   1 JAN 1974
United States 1064  30.89  Miles City, MT 262  DEC 1983
           
LOWEST          
           
World 870  25.69  16°44'N, 137°46'E near Guam in Typhoon Tip 0 ** 12 OCT 1979
North America 888  26.22  19.5°N, 83.3°W in Gulf of Mexico Hurricane Gilbert 0 ** 13 SEP 1988
United States 892.3  26.35  Matecumbe Key, FL Labor Day hurricane   2 SEP 1935
           
Canada 940.2  27.77  St. Anthony, Newfoundland   20 JAN 1977
           
Last revision 18 September 1999
Produced by Edward J. Hopkins, Ph.D.
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706

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