The windiest place on planet Earth | Wild Weather with Richard Hammond - BBC One

I'm about to take a little walk outside Okay Just popping out, which is it turns out quite a chore out here I can not only hear the wind around this building I Can feel it! the whole place is vibrating. oh no I've forgot my goggles! This is this is do it in the wrong order And your your eyeballs can freeze. Any exposed skin will have frostbite on it within two or three minutes. Right, that's my best hat. I won't get cold with that on this is to stop my nose falling off which would be bad because I'd never be able to wear sunglasses again and I want to. Liner gloves Obviously, I am now obliged by law To say I'm going outside... I might be some time. Have you noticed how cold it is indoors!? At this point I think I should try and give you some idea of what I might be in for with a small demonstration... The lightest wind you can feel on your face is about five-miles-an-hour Enough to rustle this newspaper. 15 miles-an-hour and your umbrella gives up the coast 25 miles-an-hour can cause a deckchair to set sail Followed at 30-miles-an-hour by your garden furniture 45 and all hell starts to break loose. Seemingly rigid structures suddenly make a break for it And at 55-miles-an-hour even small buildings are on the move (bye bye building) So why am I telling you all this? because On Mount Washington, it's currently 65 with gusts reaching a staggering 85 miles an hour Believe it or not I'm actually sheltered at the moment There's hardly any wind right here because I'm in the Lee of the building it starts about 6 feet that way, and then there's a lot of it And the only way to demonstrate those I'm gonna go and stand in it and for reasons best known to themselves Brendan and Sean on Cameron said that they decided to come with me because... they're idiots so um here we go right walking Not windy, not windy This is about 65 maybe 70 miles an hour with the wind, but don't forget This is the site one of the highest wind speed ever recorded by man 231 miles an hour!!! How must that feel?! I'd be gone! (continues to almost fly away in the wind)

Channel: BBC

Views: 11,503,396

Rating: 4.9147587 out of 5

Keywords: Wild Weather with Richard Hammond, wild weather, richard hammond, top gear, weather, bbc1, bbc 1, bbc one, hamster, the invisible force, wind, experiment, shed, fence, episode 1, ep 1, mount washington, Mt. Washington (Neighborhood), usa, new hampshire, Cold, Extreme, Extreme weather, Hammond, Frost bite, Gloves, Temperature, The Grand Tour, Freezing, Planet Earth

Id: P-QZ5Om9_20

Length: 4min 3sec (243 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 21 2014

Reddit Comments

[u/ArmoredLunchbox]

It's so impressive that they built shit out there

[u/Gullex]

I'm pretty sure that shed was held together with wet toilet paper and hope.

[u/_DEAL_WITH_IT_]

I'm surprised one of the windiest places in the world would be in New Hampshire.

[u/stop_the_broats]

This is well made television. Very often I find videos that are basically just demonstrating one interesting phenomenon to be (mind the pun) long winded if they dont immediately show the money shot of the phenomenon in action. This however, kept me engaged throughout the entire explanation and by the end I forgot I was watching a youtube video. I was disappointed when it was over.

[u/[deleted]]

how do workers build that building in winds like that?

[u/shackinthewoods]

Definitely in New Hampshire.

Source: Proud New Hampshirite

[u/[deleted]]

How or why do the winds get so high here?

[u/thebubbybear]

The observatory building at the summit is chained down.

[u/[deleted]]

Mount Washington is a really awesome hike and you can get very intense weather even in the summer time. We had gusts up to 90km/h and -7 c and it was 15 c at the base when we left...