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References

Krause and Flood, 1997: Weather and Climate Extremes, US Army Corps of Engineers Topographic Engineering Center pp. 89, Gales, 1970: Extremely high atmospheric pressures, Weather, 25(1), pp. 19-24, Burkova and Dzhordzhio, 1973: O mirovom rekorde davleniya na urovne morya [World record of sea level pressure], Sredneasziatskiy Regional'nyy Nauchno Issledovatelskiy Girdometeorologicheskiy Institut, Trudy (Tashkent), 86, pp. 166-174;

Discussion

At 1200GMT on 13/12/1968, the pressure at the center of huge anticyclone over Siberia reached 1083.3 hPa and was authenticated. Seven stations recorded pressures in excess of 1070 hPa, indicating that the pressure at Agata was in keeping with the general situation over the area

Previous Record

1079 hPa on 23/1/1900 at Barnaul, Russia Foreign Branch, 1968: Worldwide extremes of temperature, precipitation and pressure recorded by continental ara, U.S Dept. of Commerce; Environmental Sciences Services Administration pp. 4;