Motorway closed M74 closed in Scotland Sent via Guardian Witness By ID7426676 5 December 2013, 10 55 Updated at 11.36am GMT 11.17am GMT Historic data Historic data from the Met Office shows the windspeed recorded overnight in Inverness have only been recorded once before, in the UK, writes Mona Chalabi.
The moment when, in a matter of months, we've recorded the highest windspeeds ever measured in the western and southern hemispheres.
Based on their estimate, Gonu was tied with the 1991 Bangladesh Cyclone for the strongest tropical cyclone in the entire northern Indian Ocean, and had the highest windspeed of any cyclone in this basin.
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Another high windspeed occurred at the McNabs Island autostation, which recorded a 2-minute sustained wind of 151 km/h, with gusts to 176 km/h.
* Highest recorded wind: 231 m.p.h.
The fitting of wind data to statistical distributions has previously been focused primarily on the moderate windspeed range, partly because of the applications considered, but also because of the paucity of high windspeed data, and the poor quality of most of the available low windspeed data.
Because of their size, "it is almost impossible to launch an ozone-sonde at higher windspeed than 30 knots," she writes.
Statistical extreme value methods encompass a very wide range of problems: Extreme waves, rainfall, and floods are of basic importance in oceanography and hydrology, as are high windspeeds and extreme temperatures in meteorology and catastrophic claims in insurance.
The similar findings for windspeed and direction may be expected, as windspeed and direction at our central site were highly correlated, with higher windspeeds from the west (data not shown).
