1996..Australia...che raffica!

**franko** · 26/01/2010, 23:53

113m/s = 406.8km/h

UPDATE: This new record of 254 mph has now been accepted by the WMO!

We have a new World Wind Speed Record! (I had errantly said 253 mph below, which was converted from 113 m/s = 407 km/h).

I was recently turned on to some information regarding a storm that struck Australia in 1996 - Category 4 Tropical Cyclone Olivia (hurricanes are called Cyclones in the Southern Hemisphere). It seems that this storm produced wind gusts of 113 m/s or 253 mph (or so the instrument claimed), which would be considerably above the world record surface wind gust of 231 mph measured at Mount Washington, NH in 1934. I have obtained permission from Chevron Corporation to display this wind graph, taken during the storm at Barrow Island:

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