A gust of 209 mph was recorded atop a California peak, a potential record that wowed forecasters monitoring a cold storm moving south through the state.
The blast of wind was captured by an instrument on Kirkwood Mountain south of Lake Tahoe.
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The National Weather Service it could take months for state climatologists to verify the record. The previous record was a gust of 199 mph at Ward Mountain west of Lake Tahoe in 2017.
The storm that caused widespread in flooding in Washington and Oregon dumped rain and hail on the red carpet for the Oscars Sunday in Los Angeles