Wind chills on the mountain dipped to minus 85 on Wednesday.
Opposition to wind farms in the often striking mountain and hill areas of Wales is not uncommon.
The best sites for wind power production are typically along mountain ridges and coastal areas, locations that are also prized for scenic views and over-flown by bird and bat species that become turbine blade casualties.
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Channelled up and down Crete's mountain canyons - veritable wind tunnels - these stiff breezes are known to locals by individual names, depending on from where they come, how long they stay, and what gifts they bring with them.
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If air movement up and down the mountain's slope governed wind direction, dominant winds generally would be north-south.
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The town consisted of a couple of hundred houses that seemed to have been airlifted to the wind-battered top of a desolate mountain, which was surrounded on three sides by even higher, more foreboding peaks.
Although the landscape can shield people from sound, the report says one respondent living within 1km of a wind farm said the sound echoed off a nearby mountain into the valley where they lived.
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At Galore the four-year construction project includes an 84-mile road that will wind across the wilderness, through a 2.5-mile mountain tunnel and over at least ten bridges.
The mountains in the state's northwest region roll off the southern tip of the Rocky Mountains, and a maze of mountains and valleys funnel the wind into extreme speeds by the time they pass over ridge crests and mountain tops of the Guadalupe and Davis mountains.
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That means men spending long hours trekking around the mountain every night setting the guns according to the temperature, humidity and wind conditions.
The coldest temperature was -13C (8.6F) at Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands on 8 January, while the strongest gust of wind was 165mph (265.5kph), recorded at the highest point of the Cairngorms mountain range on 8 December.
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On the summit of Cairn Gorm, a wind speed of 135mph was recorded at midnight and 114mph on Wednesday morning, according to the CairnGorm Mountain ski centre.
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