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What Are The Fastest Wind Speeds Ever Recorded?
The World Meteorological Organization [WMO] keeps an official record of weather and climate extremes.
The WMO uses only speeds recorded by instruments, not estimates or calculations, but, at this time, does not maintain records for dropsonde measurements.
The strongest recorded surface wind is 253 mph, measured at Barrow Island, Australia, by an automated weather station, during Tropical Cyclone “Olivia”, on April 10, 1996.
A 252 mph wind gust, in hurricane “Melissa’s” eye [at an altitude of about 700 feet], is the highest wind speed ever recorded, by an expendable dropsonde.
Other notable measurements:
215 mph – Most intense winds by maximum sustained surface winds, recorded during Typhoon ‘Nancy’, in the Northwest Pacific Ocean, on September 12, 1961, and during Hurricane ‘Patricia’, in the eastern Pacific, on Oct. 23, 2015.
231 mph – The maximum wind gust ever recorded in the western or northern hemisphere, on New Hampshire's Mount Washington, on April 12, 1934.
302 mph – The highest recorded tornadic wind speed, during the Bridge Creek, Oklahoma tornado, in May 1999.
[1] “World Weather and Climate Extremes Archive” ~ WMO
➥ https://wmo.int/site/world-weather-a...tremes-archive
Just thought I'd mention it....
The World Meteorological Organization [WMO] keeps an official record of weather and climate extremes.
The WMO uses only speeds recorded by instruments, not estimates or calculations, but, at this time, does not maintain records for dropsonde measurements.
The strongest recorded surface wind is 253 mph, measured at Barrow Island, Australia, by an automated weather station, during Tropical Cyclone “Olivia”, on April 10, 1996.
A 252 mph wind gust, in hurricane “Melissa’s” eye [at an altitude of about 700 feet], is the highest wind speed ever recorded, by an expendable dropsonde.
Other notable measurements:
215 mph – Most intense winds by maximum sustained surface winds, recorded during Typhoon ‘Nancy’, in the Northwest Pacific Ocean, on September 12, 1961, and during Hurricane ‘Patricia’, in the eastern Pacific, on Oct. 23, 2015.
231 mph – The maximum wind gust ever recorded in the western or northern hemisphere, on New Hampshire's Mount Washington, on April 12, 1934.
302 mph – The highest recorded tornadic wind speed, during the Bridge Creek, Oklahoma tornado, in May 1999.
[1] “World Weather and Climate Extremes Archive” ~ WMO
➥ https://wmo.int/site/world-weather-a...tremes-archive
Just thought I'd mention it....
