Tuesday, April 12, 2005

April 12th is

Big Wind Day:

On the morning of April 12th, 1934, weather surveyors at the Mt. Washington observatory in New Hampshire recorded the strongest velocity natural wind ever measured on the surface of the Earth. The "big wind" reached 231 miles per hour and is commemorated each year on this date.

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