Blaw, Wint’ry Winds Blaw!
Blaw your warst, ye rain and win’
CONCORD, N.H. – First the Old Man, now the Big Wind. New Hampshire’s Mount Washington has lost its distinction as the site of the fastest wind gust ever recorded on Earth, officials at the Mount Washington Observatory said Tuesday.
The concession came three days after the World Meteorological Organization posted a snippet on its Web site saying a panel of experts reviewing extreme weather and climate data turned up a 253 mph gust on Australia’s Barrow Island during Cyclone Olivia in 1996.
Come in frae the cauld blast, the drift, and the snaw ;
Come under my plaidie, and sit down beside me,
There’s room in’t, dear lassie, believe me, for twa.
(text mostly from here)
Big Blows, Fun | Mr. Bingley | 
January 27, 2010 7:57 am
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Dear God ~ don’t taunt Skyler so!
I shouldn’t dos it…but I does it!
We could still get the record back with the SOTU address tonight.
That poem sounds like the Scottish version of “Wanna see my etchings?”
Oh, DAMN, Dave! EXCELLENT.
(Or “Have some madiera, m’dear?” from The Limeliters?)
They figured this out fourteen years after the fact? Was this recorded or just extrapolated?
They got it from Wombat Ring Data, ‘Fly.
Tricky reading, that.