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Mount Washington - The Highest Wind Speed Ever Recorded

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The highest wind speed record ever recorded was on top of a mountain in new hampshire. It stood all the way until, i think, two thousand 11 when it was finally confirmed that something had happened years before at bar island, australia. But the interesting thing is, its mountain washington. This was just a mass of a pressure gradient and a multiple storm sort of, sort of like the perfect storm, a crashing into one another. The jet stream dips frequently near mount washington. Apparently, they build themselves as the world's worst, the place with the world'sworst weather. Like, they have noin forced winds yet, like a hundred days of the year.

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