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A wind gust of 194 mph (312 km/h) was recorded at Cairn Gorm on 19 December 2008 but was discovered too late to be verified by the Met Office. [14] The highest wind speed in England was a wind gust of 125.4 mph recorded at The Needles, Isle of Wight, on 18 February 2022 during Storm Eunice. [15]
Cairn Gorm is notable for having the highest ever recorded wind speed in the UK on land. A wind gust of 278 km/h (173 mph) was recorded on 20 March 1986. [14] [15] A wind gust of 312 km/h (194 mph) was recorded at Cairn Gorm on 19 December 2008 but was discovered too late to be verified by the Met Office. [16]
This broke the highest low-level wind speed record for the British Isles. Much higher (unofficial) windspeeds have been recorded on the summit of Cairn Gorm and on Unst in Shetland. 1990 Storm series 25 January – 1 March 1990 1990 saw 8 storms impacting Europe between January and March. Burns' Day storm (Daria) 25–26 January 1990 ...
Wind farms in the UK often have to meet a maximum height limit of 125 m (410 ft) (excluding Scotland). However, modern lower cost wind turbines installed on the continent are over 200 m (660 ft) tall. [86] This planning criteria has stunted the development of onshore wind in the UK.
Recently, the wind speeds were re-examined and adjusted to a maximum official wind speed of 321 mph (516.6 km/h). [311] A DOW calculation of a subvortice of the 2013 El Reno tornado was estimated in a range of 257–336 mph (414–541 km/h) in 2024. [312]
The fastest wind speed not related to tornadoes ever recorded was during the passage of Tropical Cyclone Olivia on 10 April 1996: an automatic weather station on Barrow Island, Australia, registered a maximum wind gust of 113.3 m/s (408 km/h; 253 mph; 220.2 kn; 372 ft/s) [6] [7] The wind gust was evaluated by the WMO Evaluation Panel, who found ...
The 2015–16 UK and Ireland windstorm season was the first instance of the United Kingdom's Met Office and Ireland's Met Éireann naming extratropical cyclones. The season started on 10 November with the naming of Storm Abigail and ended on 28 March with the dissipation of Storm Katie.
Share of electricity production from wind, 2023 [1] Global map of wind speed at 100 m above surface level [2]. The worldwide total cumulative installed electricity generation capacity from wind power has increased rapidly since the start of the third millennium, and as of the end of 2023, it amounts to over 1000 GW. [3]