The highest gust of wind ever recorded was 231 MPH at Mount Washington, New Hampshire, USA on April 12th, 1934. Assuming you live somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere, if you stand with your back to the wind low pressure will always lie to your left, this is known as Buy Ballot s Law. The force of the hurricane Hurricanes occur mainly in the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico and off the Queensland coast. But, according to the Beaufort wind scale any wind of mean speed 73 MPH or more, is of hurricane force . A gust of 286 MPH was recorded in a tornado which blitzed Wichita falls, Texas, USA on 2nd April 1958.
Local winds can produce extreme weather conditions.
For example, the Chinook is a warm, westerly wind that blows on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains. Temperatures rises of 25 to 30 Celsius have been recorded in just a few hours. The highest wind recorded in Bristol was a gust of 90 MPH on 25th January 1990. Weather feature More of Richard's amazing facts. Click the drop down menu.