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Mount Washington has lost its distinction as the site of the fastest wind gust ever recorded on Earth, officials at the Mount Washington Observatory said.
Traditionally, the blades have had to turn at a constant speed and have been unable to take advantage of periods of the fastest wind flow.
This risk is not just a matter of extreme weather events, such as the heatwave in Russia that took an estimated 55,000 lives in 2010 or last year's typhoon Haiyan, recording the fastest wind speeds on record.
Consistent with this thinking was the measurement made using a mobile Doppler radar of the fastest wind speed ever measured, 318 miles per hour (about 512 km per hour), in a tornado that hit the suburbs of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on May 3 , 1999
A weather station in Wilmington, North Carolina reported a wind gust of 135 mph (215 km/h), setting a new record for fastest wind gust reported there.
Mount Washington's 231 mph wind gust remains the fastest surface wind ever observed in the Western and Northern Hemispheres and the fastest wind ever observed at a manned surface station.
-How fast were its fastest winds?
To see the fastest winds by their full location, use the interactive map below.
The heat liberated may also be responsible for the storminess in Neptune's atmosphere, which exhibits the fastest winds seen on any planet in the solar system.
Winds of over 2,000km per hour (nine times faster than Earth's fastest winds) whip up extreme storms, and exotic clouds (made of ammonia, methane and hydrogen sulphide) come and go.
The tornado core is a roughly cylindrical region of lower atmospheric pressure that is bounded by the maximum tangential winds (the fastest winds circulating around the centre of the tornado).
