WeatherSystems

I have received many inquiries to the very low barometer reading today. Normally a reading below 29 inches would be rather alarming and could signal a windstorm or something very serious. Indeed there is a large low off the coast, but it is off the entire West Coast from California to British Columbia. So, there is not a large or rapid pressure change occurring. That is what we need for a wind storm, low pressure followed by rapidly rising pressure. The current low will rotate a little further north and then spin back westward out to sea.

Meanwhile record setting low readings in some locales. Medford Oregon registered 28.88 inches Wednesday breaking the old record low pressure of 28.93 inches on December 12, 1995.

I recorded 28.89 inches on my Vantage Pro2 weather station as well as my fancy wall barometer (LOL). On many of the old aneroid barometers they had weather phrases printed ion them and this time around it would be in the "stormy" category.