".......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. ......"
We knew this, and we are talking "recorded".
".......Mary Stampone, assistant professor of geography at the University of New Hampshire and the New Hampshire State Climatologist, said she had long expected the record to fall.
"As we improve our technology in terms of instrumentation, and we're observing in more locations, we were bound to pick up on something," she said."
But what we really need is a few three cup anemometers in the Washington DC area Wednesday night (tonight for some) - all records will be broken then - shattered.
source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100127/ap_ ... rd_toppled