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buff_jeff
01-27-2010, 10:21
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100127/ap_on_sc/us_wind_record_toppled

JustaTouron
01-27-2010, 10:29
I know a lot of people have been blown away by this...but three threads?

Lone Wolf
01-27-2010, 10:31
it's just wind

buff_jeff
01-27-2010, 10:31
Didn't see those, guess this thread can be deleted then.

jersey joe
01-27-2010, 10:55
Mt. Washington loses it's bragging right...I always wondered how accurate the wind reading actually was from back in the 1930's...

Wheeler
01-27-2010, 12:28
This was news to me. Since 1996, too. I just believed everyone and never checked for myself. (chuckles)

Spokes
01-27-2010, 13:01
it's just wind

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind.

jesse
01-27-2010, 14:47
"Mt. Washington loses "recorded wind speed" record"

that really blows

solace
01-27-2010, 15:02
it took a CYCLONE down under to break that Granite State Record! The NH record was just good ole wind ;)

partly cloudy
01-28-2010, 19:30
it took a CYCLONE down under to break that Granite State Record! The NH record was just good ole wind ;)

That's what I think the difference should be. You would have higher winds inside a tornado, did they count those, NO. I still have to give Big George the upper hand.