The wind gust reported by the National Tidal Service is preliminary but if confirmed it would rank in the top 10 wind gusts ever observed globally. Weather agencies such as the National Hurricane Center and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) typically confirm extreme observations through post-storm analysis.
The strongest wind on record is a 253 mph gust on Barrow Island in Australia during Tropical Cyclone Olivia on April 10, 1996, according data from the World Meteorological Organization. Before then, Mount Washington held the wind record with a 231 mph gust on April 12, 1934. And more recently, a 213 mph gust was measured on Orchid Island in Taiwan last month during Typhoon Koinu.
Extreme winds often go unrecorded because such gusts can either damage or destroy instrumentation. In this case, however, the weather station operated by the National Tidal Service “was the only element to remain completely standing” near the observing site “since the entire perimeter fence disappeared,” the agency said on X, formerly known as Twitter.
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