NULL 2010-05-22 18:45:52.000 - Sabrina Lomans,  Summit Intern Climbing the snow field Despite being only a few days into my first shift as one of the summer interns, I have already encountered many new things that only Mount Washington can offer. From majoring in Environmental Science with a concentration in Geology, I was familiar with the nickname associated with Mount Washington as having the "World's Worst Weather". Essentially, this moniker is exactly what drew me to this mountain because I knew that an internship here would provide not only a learning experience but an adventure.. One of the first days

NULL 2010-05-21 14:57:03.000 - Mike Carmon,  Staff Meteorologist Shimmering Shower In the spirit of Steve's comment yesterday, change is the word.Summer is in full swing, and there are some new faces on the summit. Deb is back as our summit museum attendant, we have a new intern, Sabrina, and we are expecting our second summer intern, Kristin, tomorrow. You'll be hearing from them firsthand later this shift.Despite the more temperate summer season, changes in daily weather are still perfectly normal. Yesterday was a prime example, as a weak cold front charged through New England.Watching the radar over New Hampshire yesterday

NULL 2010-05-20 16:34:55.000 - Steve Welsh,  IT Observer Cars So after an extended shift break it's back to work and my oh my how everything has changed. Winter is no more - in our absence the auto road opened to cars, the cog started running on the weekends and the building opened its doors to the public. The summit museum is also up and running and Deb is back for the season. Just to add to the excitement we have a new intern and to cap it all off Stacey is away on vacation.The biggest change to have occurred though

NULL 2010-05-19 16:01:54.000 - Joe Kayan,  Summit Volunteer NULL Regrettably, this is the last day of my volunteer week at the top of Mt.Washington. Another marvelously unique experience it has been. I arrived a week ago to a spectacularly ice encrusted world. Snow still covered much of the summit cone. The cairns that mark all the glorious hiking trails crisscrossing this treeless terrain were proudly flying streamers of rime ice on their windward sides.Now, just seven days later, the ice is gone. The snow also is mostly gone. Being an avid hiker, I was not sad to experience its rapid

Starry Night 2010-05-18 18:59:43.000 - Rebecca Scholand,  Summit Intern When I was in 4th grade we were all given an assignment to write our own mythology short story. Mine was why the stars don't shine in the city. It went something like this... There was an old man who wanted to copy the stars, so he lit lanterns and placed them in open fields to copy the night sky. The god of the stars didn't like that the old man was copying him so he hid the stars leaving the lanterns burning on the ground. Over time the growing city

An eventful day. 2010-05-17 23:32:26.000 - Ryan Knapp,  Staff Meteorologist An interesting cloud from this morning. They say that a picture is worth 1000 words and after yesterdays long winded comment, this time, I will use more pictures than words. The day started out with some of the weirdest clouds I have seen up here. What made it even odder was the apparent lack of moisture and how they were forming. The high pressure that was building in was blocking most of the water vapor visible on the satellite and the closest sounding was very dry as well. But somehow

Old vs New 2010-05-16 22:38:08.000 - Ryan Knapp,  Staff Meteorologist Comment now loading... To start, let me just say that the thumbnail to this comment is suppose to look like that. No matter how long you sit there waiting for an image to appear, nothing is going to pop up because the picture of "Loading Comment..." is the picture for this comment. Why? Well, just over a decade ago, loading images, icons or comments used to be the standard when surfing the web. Most websites were raw, stripped down sites made up mostly of text to accommodate the slow speeds

A Gray-T Day 2010-05-15 16:02:34.000 - Mike Finnegan,  IT Observer The Simple Things Today is a good day to be inside here on the mountain. I suppose if one were well prepared and enjoyed hiking on slick, ice covered rocks with freezing rain, blowing winds, and temperatures just below freezing, it would be a good day to be outside. It is days like today where I look at the windows rather than out them. They, like the rocks, are covered in a glaze of water ice. The temperature has been between 31.0 and 31.6 degrees for the last 5 hours

Getting closer 2010-05-14 17:06:42.000 - Brian Clark,  Observer and Meteorologist NULL Tomorrow is the start of another weekend, and one weekend closer to the planned opening of the Sherman Adams State Park Building to the public, for the summer season on May 22. Of course, that date is subject to change if the weather takes a turn for the worse, so make sure you call the State Park ahead of time or check out their website if you plan on coming to the summit that weekend.With the opening of the building just around the corner, that also means that the

New Intern First Day 2010-05-13 16:29:05.000 - Rebecca Scholand,  Summit Intern To start, let me introduce myself, I am Rebecca and am one of the new summit interns. I started my first day on the summit yesterday with an uneventful drive on the Mount Washington Auto Road (according to others, if it takes less then an hour and you can see the valley below, it is not a "real" trip to the summit). Arriving at the observatory, I had trouble believing that this is where I would be spending my summer. The view I was presented with was hard to