The Eyewall The dense wall of thunderstorms surrounding the eye has the strongest winds within the storm.

There are three main parts of a hurricane:

• Eye — This is the center. It is the calm part of the storm.
• Eye Wall — This part is around the eye. This part has the strongest winds and rains. The winds may blow 200 miles per hour.
• Rain Bands — These are the clouds that spin out and make the storm bigger.

The Eye Wall: a hurricane’s most devastating region. Located just outside of the eye is the eye wall. This is the location within a hurricane where the most damaging winds and intense rainfall is found. The image below is of a hurricane (called cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere).

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The fastest wind speed ever recorded comes from a hurricane gust. On April 10, 1996, Tropical Cyclone Olivia (a hurricane) passed by Barrow Island, Australia. It was the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane at the time, 254 mph (408 km/h).

Where are the Windiest Cities in the US?

• Great Falls, MT: 11.4.
• New York, NY: 11.3.
• Oklahoma City, OK: 11.3.
• Wichita Falls, TX: 11.2.
• Grand Island, NE: 11.2.
• Fargo, ND: 11.1.
• Galveston, TX: 11.1.
• Concordia, KS: 11.0.

What are the windiest places on earth and in the UK?

Barrow Island Situated off the north-west coast of Australia, this little island has seen some strong breezes. On 10 April 1996, an unmanned weather station there recorded a gust of wind that reached 253 miles per hour (408km/h).

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Casas Adobes in Arizona ties with Catalina Foothills and Tucson for the lowest average wind speed in the U.S. Its annual average wind speed is also just 1.1 MPH.

Usually, in weather observations, a wind speed that rounds off to zero is reported as “Calm,” and that way no direction is given. However, it is possible for wind speed to be very slight, say one third of a mile per hour.

On April 10, 1996, the Earth’s strongest surface wind, not including tornadoes, was measured, but almost 14 years would pass until it became an official world record.

World: Longest Recorded Dry Period The world’s lowest average yearly precipitation in 0.03″ (0.08 cm) during a 59-year period at Arica Chile. Lane notes that no rainfall has ever been recorded at Calama in the Atacama Desert, Chile.

The driest place on Earth is in Antarctica in an area called the Dry Valleys, which have seen no rain for nearly 2 million years. There is absolutely no precipitation in this region and it makes up a 4800 square kilometer region of almost no water, ice or snow.

Astronomers have discovered the fastest ultraviolet winds ever recorded in the Universe, swirling around a supermassive black hole at speeds of up to 200 million km/h (125 million mph). “We’re talking wind speeds of 20 percent the speed of light,” says one of the team, Jesse Rogerson from York University in Canada.

The solar wind streams plasma and particles from the sun out into space. Though the wind is constant, its properties aren’t.

– at 19 to 24 mph, smaller trees begin to sway. – at 25 to 31 mph, large branches will be in motion, whistling will be heard in overhead wires, and umbrella use becomes difficult if not impossible. – at 32 to 38 mph, whole trees will be in motion. You’ll experience some difficulty when walking into the wind.

In reality, there is no such thing as an F6 tornado. When Dr. Fujita developed the F scale, he created a scale that ranges from F0 to F12, with estimated F12 winds up to mach 1 (the speed of sound).

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Despite the risk that comes with living in Tornado Alley, many Oklahomans are reluctant to build tornado shelters. “With an F5 tornado you get the ‘house swept away – only foundation is left’ situation – and the only *safe* place from an F5 is underground or out of it’s path.

As the tornado is coming down, you should hear a loud, persistent roar. It is going to sound a lot like a freight train moving past your building. If there are not any train tracks near you, then you need to take action.

And then actually even the smell of tornadoes—if you’re in the right place, you get a strong odor of fresh-cut grass, or occasionally, if it’s destroyed a house, natural gas. Sometimes you get that raw earth smell, similar to if you run a bulldozer over open land.

Day or night – Loud, continuous roar or rumble, which doesn’t fade in a few seconds like thunder. Night – Small, bright, blue-green to white flashes at ground level near a thunderstorm (as opposed to silvery lightning up in the clouds). These mean power lines are being snapped by very strong wind, maybe a tornado.

Traumatic injury, including head injury, is the leading cause of death during tornadoes.