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Originally Posted by pornguy
more than 30 people with weather tracking devices reported that. And it was ALL over the news for a week or so, and then one day, GONE.
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You better call the Guiness Book of World Records. The fastest surface wind ever recorded by an anemometer was 231 mph. And that was a gust (NOT a sustained wind) on top of a mountain. That record had held for over 70 years.
Also, it is just not feasible for a hurricane to reach sustained winds of 300 mph on earth. The oceans would have to be warmer and the average surface pressures lower. Theory and observation are in agreement on this. Kerry Emanuel's work suggests a top sustained wind speed of about 200 mph for a hurricane given present conditions on earth. In addition there have been many hundreds of recon missions into hurricane eyewalls and the top sustained wind speed recorded is somewhere around 200 mph. Not known exactly since flight level winds are a little higher than surface and they have to be reduced in calculation.
Many airports have anemometers with top readings of 100 knots. About 115 mph. It is just not feasible that there were dozens of people with super expensive anemometers that measured record breaking 300 mph winds and that didn't have their houses blown down first. i don't even know if you could purchase an anemometer that could record that. Certainly not with anything any weather enthusiast would typically buy for his/her home.