Watch: Mt. Washington clocks season’s highest wind gusts
Mount Washington Observatory officials said the wind chill was around -20 degrees Fahrenheit on Wednesday.
With peak gusts reaching 133 mph, Mount Washington saw its windiest day this winter on Wednesday, according to the Mount Washington Observatory. The New Hampshire non-profit posted a video on Facebook of their intern, Eve, attempting to walk through the flurry of wind and snow. “No interns were harmed in the making of this video,” observatory officials wrote. They said the air temperature was about 12 degrees Fahrenheit, but with the wind chill, it was around -20 degrees Fahrenheit.The 35 second clip shows Eve experiencing peak gusts of 117 mph, which rattles her balance and she’s seen stumbling to get back on her feet. One worried observer commented on the post, saying ,“I hope she didn’t fly off! Is that ever a concern?”Officials said the deck Eve is walking on is about 150 feet in length, but if you slide to the far end, only a railing is stopping you from a 20-foot drop. “In very high winds we may be unable to stand back up after sliding a bit, but luckily the force of the wind is much less near ground level,” officials wrote. “Crawling on hands and knees may be required, we jokingly call this ‘the crawl of shame.’”
Of course, Wednesday’s 133 mph wind gusts were hardly the strongest the mountain has seen: On April 12, 1934, researchers there clocked a then-world record of 231 mph.
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