Max Wind youve seen.... (crazy wind in central canada)

[tdp19]

There was a low pressure system that passed through Manitoba/Nunavut this week, the one Metar I caught was CYRT 290000z CCA 30036G51kt 0sm -sn +BLSN VV003...... What is the max wind anyone has seen/heard on metar? I remember seeing high 50s out of buttonville during a thunderstorm last summer. Anyone?

[Lowjack]

YYC on Sunday during the windstorm:


CYYC- by RAF-YYC, on Flickr

[light chop]

Claresholm AB airport wind speed reported gusts of 69 knts (128km/h) on Sunday Nov. 27th. That's the fastest I've seen.

[E Said]

I've seen the wind gusting to 85kts in St. John's (YYT).

[Slappy the Squirrel]

I'm sure it was windy, but seriously guys..... Time to let it go....

If you get that excited over wind then you should pack up and move to St. John's.

[tdp19]

Hey Slappy, hit the bricks buddy. If you dont have anything to contribute, beat it.....

[Beefitarian]

Be nice to Slappy, he gets points for one of the best screen names evar!!

Did anyone notice what Lethbridge and PincherCreek etc. experienced, was Claresholm the record holder for the day?

[planeless]

lethbridge had gusts of 63kts in the metar at one point

[Old Dog Flying]

Greenwood, NS during a hurricane in the mid '50s..135 kts...and we had to sit in that old rickety control tower just in case..of what we could not figure out. The glass was bending and we were hiding under the consoles with mattress' for protection.

Barney

[flyincanuck]

84 kts. Hurricane Igor YYT a few years ago.

That was "fun".

[Siddley Hawker]

84 kts. Hurricane Igor YYT a few years ago.

I can believe it. I landed there one winter night some years ago, it was 290/50G67. Another day on approach on 11 - at 3000' indicating 140kt - we had a g/s on the Loran of 58kt. The strange thing was, it was a smooth as silk. Below 3000' it was another story entirely.

[beaverbob]

Gone

[CYCG]

Yeah i had the opportunity to talk a walk out in the CYRT 0SM G56 VV000 the other day. Fastest Ive ever been in, few more knots and it would have been Category 1 hurricane winds.

[bubba070]

The Central Coast today. Check out Ivory, the highest I have ever seen it.


Dixon Entrance, Hecate Strait & Central Coast

Issued at 14:30 UTC 24 January 2012
GREEN OVC 7R SE41G58E 10FT RUFF BLWNG SPRY
TRIPLE OVC 2RF SE50EG 8FT RUFF LO W
BONILLA X 1/2R-F SE55G 10FT RUFF HVY S BLWNG SPRY
LANGARA OVC 6RW-F S14 3FT MDT LO W
BOAT BLUFF OVC 12RW- SE25G35 4FT MDT
MCINNES OVC 2R-F SE75EG 15FT RUFF HVY SW BLWNG SPRY
IVORY PC 10 SE75G102 16FT FT RUFF HVY SW BLWNG SPRY
DRYAD CLDY 10RW- S40G 4FT MDT BLWNG SPRY
ADDENBROKE OVC 15 SE40EG 8FT RUFF MDT S

[Ref Plus 10]

105G110, Casey Station, Antarctica

[cncpc]

90 mph at 1000 feet, 1982, Astoria, Oregon. It was only about a steady 30 when we took off from Seaside to go up the few miles to get fuel. When we got there, it was 90 in the circuit and semi's were blowing over on the big highrise bridge across the Columbia. Started out on final for the south, ended up blowing around 90 degrees and landing across that runway. Only used half the width.

[Hawkerflyer]

I once landed in a 13kt crosswind! Sure as hell shit my pants on that one!

[careerpilot?]

Great video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mneDbYYH ... e=youtu.be

149 Km/h... According to my trusty E6-B, that works out to about 81 Kts...

[looproll]

50 gusting to 70 on the surface at the Lethbridge airport. Clear day, no storms, just very windy due to chinook conditions. There is a channeling effect through the Crowsnest Pass which results is some insane, sustained wind speeds.

[totalflyer]

The worst I have ever experienced personally was at CYQY (Sydney, NS) when a friend and I
were ferrying a Piper Archer and were getting fuel in 42kts G 49 in January. We were each on
the end of a wing trying to hold it a little more still while they fueled it.

Later on the trip had a 92kt headwind at 3000' departing Fredricton, NB needless to say we diverted... lol