The world record for fastest surface wind speed ever recorded is 253 mph. It was "accurately measured with an anemometer" on Australia's Barrow Island during cyclone Olivia, and being accurately measured makes the "official world record". The unofficial record is 318 mph. This was measured using Doppler radar during an F5 tornado in Oklahoma. It's unofficial because Doppler radar is a less accurate way to measure wind speed than with an anemometer.
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We here on Earth wouldn't think of it as "wind", but some aspects of the "solar wind" thrown off in coronal mass ejections from the Sun traverse the 93,000,000 miles to Earth in as little as a couple of days.
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The hottest temperature ever recorded in Christchurch, New Zealand was 42.4°C, on February 7 1973. It set the New Zealand record for highest recorded temperature ever for the whole of the country.
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