oldlogin Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Tuesday, January 31, 2012 STOCKHOLM -- High atmospheric pressure is typically associated with good flying weather. Not so at the Lulea air base in northern Sweden, where about a dozen Gripen fighter jets were barred from taking part in a Nordic air exercise Tuesday because of an abnormally strong high pressure system. It's not that it's unsafe to fly, says base commander Mats Hakkarainen, but the pressure is so extreme the planes' instruments are being confused by the values and issue error signals. The national weather agency says the atmospheric pressure in northern Sweden reached a 40-year high on Sunday. Peter Liander, a spokesman for Gripen maker Saab, stressed that the plane can fly in all kinds of weather, but "the value is so extreme" that flight instruments treat it as an error. http://www.baynews9.com/article/news/ap/december/376498/Swedish-combat-jets-grounded-by-high-pressure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellinwood Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Nice... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 According to that map, 1052 does not look so bad. It does show 1056 getting into Finland but the 1060 there in Russia, now that is some dense air. 31.3 is the highest my analog barometer reads. Would be funny to twist off the dial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icebreaker5221 Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 1060 mb in Ukhta and Syktyvkar, Russia. Probably higher between the two or somewhere nearby, but it's hard to find metars out there. 00Z ECMWF analysis has a 1064 mb contour. UUYH 311600Z 00000MPS CAVOK M30/M32 Q1060 NOSIG RMK QFE783 3639//42= UUYY 310900Z 02003MPS CAVOK M25/M28 Q1060 NOSIG 0182//51 RMK QFE785/1047= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach McGuirk Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Nice... So that's where all our cold air is hiding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aslkahuna Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Same thing has happened in Alaska and Northern Canada in the past during very high pressure episodes. Has to do with altimeters and altimeter settings. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Smith Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Pressures as high as 1067 mbs in north central Russia earlier today, check Wunderground obs for two places called Kyzym and Hoseda-Hard (no kidding). These locations are northeast of Moscow. This may be the highest pressure in Europe (Urals being the boundary) since a similar reading in January, 1907 in Latvia. There was a reading near 1064 mbs in early January 2008 in the same part of Russia so it's not that big a return period for 1060+ . Temperatures in this sprawling high are generally low end of -30s to high end of -40s (either scale). Lake Ladoga is still largely free of ice after a mildish winter before last week, so ice fog is streaming off it, as with lakes in southern Sweden. The Baltic is about 3-4 C except for partially frozen northern Gulf of Bothnia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluewave Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 I think that the world record is still 1083.3 mb from Siberia. http://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/article.html?entrynum=51 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Smith Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 "Svend, we can go out now, the blondes have gone back to work, I mean the pressure has fallen below 1050 mbs." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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