Click HERE to view the latest hurricane data from NOAA National Hurricane Center
Click HERE to view the current weather at the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire at the Mount Washington Observatory.
Mount Washington’s iconic 231 mph wind speed record from April 12, 1934 was broken in 1996 by a 253 mph gust on Barrow Island, Australia, during Cyclone Olivia.
While the absolute world record is held by an unmanned station in Australia, Mount Washington’s 1934 “Big Wind” remains the highest wind speed directly recorded by human observers on the surface of the earth.
Click HERE to view the current weather at the Vostak Station, Antarctica.
The lowest ground-level temperature ever recorded was −89.2°C (−128.6°F) at the Russian Vostok Station in Antarctica on July 21, 1983.
Click HERE to view the current weather at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica
Click HERE to learn about the “Hottest Places on Earth”.
The Lut Desert in Iran holds the record of the single highest land surface temperature on Earth in 2005, when a temperature of 70.7 ° C or 159.3 ° F was recorded.
