London just broke a 300-year old weather record - but you probably didn`t even notice it
(WorldNews Environment)

Jan Duplnszki/Shutterstock In the early hours of Monday January 20 2020, something unusual was happening in the atmosphere above the southern British Isles. Just after midnight, air pressure records for London were broken at Heathrow airport, where the barometer reached 1,049.6 millibars. That´s the highest level since records began in 1692. It broke the previous record for London of 1,049.1 millibars, which was recorded at Kew Observatory at 11am on January 18 1882 . If you have a household barometer, you might have seen its needle settle well beyond `Very Dry`. But despite this being an exceptionally rare weather event, it´s very unlikely that anyone else would have noticed anything...