World Record Wind Gust: 253 mph from a tropical cyclone

[taliban]

The 6,288-foot peak of New Hampshire's Mount Washington is a forbidding landscape of wind-swept barren rock, home to some of planet Earth's fiercest winds.
As a 5-year old boy, I remember being blown over by a terrific gust of wind on the summit, and rolling out of control towards a dangerous drop-off before a
fortuitously-placed rock saved me. Perusing the Guinness Book of World Records as a kid, three iconic world weather records always held a particular mystique and
fascination for me: the incredible 136°F at El Azizia, Libya in 1922, the -128.5°F at the "Pole of Cold" in Vostok, Antarctica in 1983, and the amazing 231 mph
wind gust recorded in 1934 on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. Well, the legendary winds of Mount Washington have to take second place,
next to the tropical waters of northwest Australia. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has announced that the new world wind speed record at the
surface is a 253 mph (112 m/s) wind gust measured on Barrow Island, Australia. The gust occurred on April 10, 1996, during passage of the eyewall of Category 4
Tropical Cyclone Olivia.




source: Wunder Blog : Weather Underground

[thekiller]

lovely sailing weather!