Volunteer comment 2010-05-26 18:42:57.000 - Cynthia L. Terry,  Summit Volunteer NULL There is beauty in the consistent inconsistency about this mountain. Approaching a decade of volunteer work the one thing I know is I'll never know enough about this area; it is full of surprises for a Pennsylvania gal. I found an unwanted one this trip.After a week of the most unbelievably great, clear weather I have ever had, I took a leisurely jaunt to one of my favorite places, Sphinx Col. This is a very scenic valley between Mt. Clay and Mt. Jefferson. Just below the sign that pronounces

Passing Storms 2010-05-25 16:42:09.000 - Mike Carmon,  Staff Meteorologist Missed it by that much... I'm currently watching the sky to the northeast like a disappointed child who didn't get what he wanted on Christmas.We were hoping for a few thunderstorms today to close out our shift with a bang, but it looks like our neighbors to the east, Maine and Canada, are getting all the action. The radar from out there is lit up with bright reds and oranges.The storms are so massive that the cirrus tops of the cumulonimbus clouds can be seen from here on the summit. A

DMC 2010-05-24 17:29:20.000 - Mike Carmon,  Staff Meteorologist Crepuscular Rays With the absence of my counterpart meteorologist this shift, my skills in predicting the unpredictable have been especially on call. Luckily, the presence of a formidable and stubborn ridge of high pressure over the eastern half of the Continental U.S. has provided us with pretty mundane but gorgeous weather for most of the shift. I have lamented with my co-workers that I'm running out of ways to put into words the fact that skies will be sunny and temperatures will be warm. But I should not complain, because before long,

NULL 2010-05-23 16:03:55.000 - Kristin Raisanen,  Summit Intern The cog going down on a beautiful day As Mike announced early this week, the interns have arrived. I'm one of the two summer interns on this shift, you heard from Sabrina, the other intern, yesterday. Today is only my second day on duty, but I'm already having a fantastic time, and trying to learn as much as possible. As a NH native and a weather junkie, I volunteered on the summit a few summers ago, and knew I needed to take it one step further and become a summit intern one

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