“Mount Washington is notorious for having the world’s worst weather. The New Hampshire peak can be frigid, with temperatures dipping as low as 50 degrees below zero. It’s snowy, with over 49 inches once falling in a single day. It’s regularly blanketed in rime ice, formed from freezing fog. Most of all, it’s exceedingly windy. 

On April 12, 1934, weather observers at the summit recorded wind gusts of 231 miles per hour—a world record that was not broken until decades later.

To this day, Mount Washington holds the U.S. (and Northern Hemisphere) wind speed record, as well as the record for fastest wind speed ever measured at a staffed weather station. By comparison, no U.S. hurricane has ever topped 190 mph.”