Mt. Washington Still Holds Windy Record
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Mt. Washington in New Hampshire gets to keep its 63-year-old world wind-speed record. The National Weather Service announced that widely circulated reports of a wind gust of 236 mph from Typhoon Paka on Guam on Dec. 16, 1997, were “not reliable” and the Mt. Washington mark of 231 mph set April 12, 1934, is “the current world record.” For decades, a sign and literature have proclaimed the ground wind-speed record for thousands of visitors as an example of “the world’s worst weather.”
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