Millibar (mbar)

Modern equivalent

100 Pascals

Formerly standard for UK weather forecasts, numerically identical to hectopascals.

Millibars were for decades the familiar unit announced by BBC weather forecasters tracking depressions and anticyclones across the British Isles.

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