Calif. wind speed record set at Alpine Meadows
By Amy Graff, San Francisco Chronicle
A 199-mph gust that blasted a mountaintop at the Alpine Meadows ski resort last February was the strongest wind ever recorded in California, federal scientists reported.
It was also the strongest non-tornado wind in the United States last year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
By comparison, 140-mph winds have been known to pick up and hurl baseball-size rocks.
