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

Another volunteer week 2010-05-12 22:21:17.000 - John Pearson,  Summit Volunteer NULL Another volunteer week on Mt Washington, ho hum. That's what my sea level friends said when I told them I would be on the summit for this my fifth trip as a volunteer. How wrong could they be?When I arrived at the summit last Wednesday, it did appear that spring had arrived. Two feet of snow a week or so ago, and now the ground was bare. I have learned never to sell this mountain short when it comes to weather, and was not disappointed this shift. Winds gusting

Auto-tuning the weather 2010-05-11 23:01:07.000 - Ryan Knapp,  Staff Meteorologist No auto-tuning needed on this sunrise today. Love it or hate it, a process called auto-tune seems to be everywhere nowadays. Auto-tune, to those unfamiliar, is a proprietary audio processor that corrects the pitch in vocal and instrumental performances. When used correctly, it is subtle and can be used to clean up the sound of bands or singers in recording or large live performances to provide a cleaner pitch-perfect sound. But recently, a few singers have been taking it to the extremes making artists out of people that normally would

Looking for Tomorrow 2010-05-10 17:53:03.000 - Mike Finnegan,  IT Observer NULL Today hasn't been a terribly interesting day on the mountain as far as weather is concerned. Winds have held fairly steady in the 40-60 mph range and temperatures have slowly climbed from around 10 degrees F to the mid teens. For a few hours it looked like it wanted to clear, but it was only teasing us as we stayed in the fog the entire day. High pressure should be building in however and will clear the summits tonight and remain so through tomorrow, giving us a chance to

Contrasting weather 2010-05-09 17:32:32.000 - Brian Clark,  Observer and Meteorologist NULL Here are some weather stats from one week ago today (May 2):High Temperature: 58 degrees Fahrenheit (tied the daily record high, also set in 1936)Low Temperature: 47 degrees FahrenheitAverage Wind Speed: 35.5 mphLiquid Precipitation: TraceSnowfall: 0 inchesNow let's contrast that with stats so far today. Now of course the day isn't over yet so these will change slightly, but you'll get the point:High Temperature: 21 degrees FahrenheitLow Temperature: 13 degrees FahrenheitAverage Wind Speed: 64.4 mphLiquid Precipitation: 0.38 inchesSnowfall: 2.6 inchesQuite a contrast! Of course a very winter like day

Saturday Shift Change 2010-05-08 22:42:36.000 - Ryan Knapp,  Staff Meteorologist Volunteer John Pearson captures the 1st cog of '10 Another Saturday, another successful shift change. Wait, something doesn't sound right in the previous sentence. If you frequently read our comments or have volunteered up here, the problem is probably obvious. The problem lies in the word "Saturday". I have nothing against Saturday, don't get me wrong, it just doesn't normally belong in that sentence. For the two shifts that work on the summit, Wednesdays normally mark the start/end of our work week while Saturdays normal mark the middle of the

NULL 2010-05-07 16:32:10.000 - Stacey Kawecki,  Observer and Meteorologist NULL 'No singing, no dancing, no chick flicks!' Those are Steve's rules. I am the primary offender; Drew is in a close second. My affinity for musicals, singing and dancing is directly correlated to my upbringing. My dad used to make up songs on his guitar and my mom always had music on and was always singing. My brother was in a band; my sister and I would act out songs from The Sound of Music and Grease. So, a public apology to Steve and anyone else who has had to