{"id":8940,"date":"2018-01-15T17:29:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T00:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8940"},"modified":"2018-01-23T03:28:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T10:28:36","slug":"record-sierra-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/15\/record-sierra-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Record Sierra Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/weather\/article\/California-wind-record-fastest-gust-Ward-Peak-199-12488795.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The San Francisco Chronicle<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline entry-title\">199-MPH Sierra wind gust sets California record<\/h1>\n<p class=\"byline\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/author\/amy-graff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amy Graff<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wn2BHF73MeU\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A gust that blasted the summit of a peak at Alpine Meadows in February was the fastest non-tornado wind recorded in the United States in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The 199-mph gust was also the fastest ever recorded in California, according to the National Climate Data Center&#8217;s Extremes Committee, which sanctioned the mark last week.<\/p>\n<p>For comparison, 140-mph winds have been known to <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/storms\/severe\/news\/most-extreme-winds-earth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pick up and hurl baseball-sized rocks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even in winds of 120 mph you can&#8217;t stand under your own force,&#8221; says Tom Padham, a meteorologist with the Mount Washington Observatory. &#8220;You&#8217;re knocked over pretty quickly. You wouldn&#8217;t be able to stand back up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>New Hampshire&#8217;s Mount Washington holds the record for fastest wind speed on U.S. soil\u00a0\u2014 231 mph.<\/p>\n<p>The powerful 199-mph gust whipped Ward Peak in Alpine Meadows ski resort at about 11 p.m. Feb. 20 during a fierce storm driven by an atmospheric river that pummeled the northern Sierra Nevada mountain range.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/weather\/article\/California-wind-record-fastest-gust-Ward-Peak-199-12488795.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at SFGate.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The San Francisco Chronicle 199-MPH Sierra wind gust sets California record By Amy Graff A gust that blasted the summit of a peak at Alpine Meadows in February was the fastest non-tornado wind recorded in the United States in 2017. The 199-mph gust was also the fastest ever recorded in California, according to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}