If your local weatherman said "gusty today with winds of up to 231 MPH," you'd think he'd been drinking. But in 1934, the wind actually blew that hard where in the U.S.?

Mount Washington, New Hampshire held the world record for the fastest wind gust ever recorded on the surface of the Earth: 231 miles per hour, recorded on April 12, 1934. But in 1996, Barrow Island, Australia recorded a new record of 253 miles per hour during Tropical Cyclone Olivia.

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