Meteorologists have dug into the archives of the fastest wind of the Earth
The fastest wind gust, recorded at the surface of our home planet ever seen, suddenly revealed in the meteorological data for 1996. The new record surpassed the previous essentially, holding more than seven decades.
Covered in a green island with a surprisingly mild climate is not suitable for "possession" of the strongest winds in the world, but this particular corner of the Earth now holds this record, even if only for one episode (photo NASA).
Palm in the category of "the fastest wind measured on the ground" still held the stream to catch one in New Hampshire at the top of Mount Washington ( Mount Washington ). His speed reached 372 km / h.
April 12, 1934 in Mount Washington was three scientists, two of their guests, three cats and five kittens. They did not know what to get into the story. Even after the registration of the phenomenal wind meteorologists hardly anticipated how important he will find, because the mountain has always been famous for extreme weather conditions.
However, the "wind" was the most-most on the entire planet, and remained as such until recently. The Big Wind became the proud state of a heavy day for a handful of people even had written a book, and the snow-covered peak acquired additional luster in the eyes of tourists. No wonder that Americans are now depressed - their record "floated" in Australia.
As the Press Release the World Meteorological Organization, the panel reviewed a number of old data and announced: now the fastest wind on the planet - is impulse, measured by 10 April 1996 on the Australian island of Barrow (Barrow Island) during the passage of cyclone Olivia. The new record was 408 km / h!
Note that with this record does not compete with fast flows in the upper atmosphere measured by satellites and local turbulence, over clocked tornadoes. What to Mount Washington, then she left comforted that the famous wind in 1934 left the title of the fastest in the North and in the Western Hemisphere.
Mount Washington and its observatory. Now, having lost the title as a point of registering the fastest winds of the earth, it remains one of the most inhospitable places, with frequent frosts, with an abundance of snow, wind and chilling fog (photos wikipedia.org, AP Photo / Jim Cole, Michael Davidson).