Mike Kovalchick
EF3
"The concession came three days after the World Meteorological Organization posted a snippet on its Web site saying a panel of experts reviewing extreme weather and climate data turned up a 253 mph gust on Australia's Barrow Island during Cyclone Olivia in 1996. That tops the 231 mph record set atop Mount Washington on April 12, 1934."
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