List of weather records
- Longest lightning bolt: 190 km (118 miles) 2001-10-13.[38]
- Most strikes per year: More than 70 per km² in parts of Central Africa, especially the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[39]
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- Worst airline disaster due to fog: 583 were killed in the Tenerife disaster; Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, 1977-03-27.[40]
- Highest air pressure ever recorded: 1085.6 mb (32.06 inHg); Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia, 2001-12-19.[41]
- Lowest (surface) air pressure ever recorded: 850 mbar; recorded in tornado at surface by probe near Manchester, South Dakota on 2003-06-24[42] (The place is located 1,540 ft (470 m) above sea level, normal air pressure is 960 mbar).
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- ^ Lee, Julian J.; Timothy P. Samaras, Carl R. Young (October 2004). "Pressure Measurements at the ground in an F-4 tornado". Preprints of the 22nd Conference on Severe Local Storms, Hyannis, Massachusetts: American Meteorological Society.
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