NULL 2010-03-18 15:03:52.000 - Stacey Kawecki,  Observer and Meteorologist As I was driving to work yesterday morning, through Danville on Rt. 2 on a particularly elevated portion of the road, I not-so-quietly cursed at myself. Rather, I cursed my forgetfulness. I forgot my camera this week. Back in Montpelier, I realized my folly, but turning back would have added at least an hour to my trip and was not an option. By the time I was riding through Danville, I smacked the steering wheel a bit harder than it deserved, out of pure frustration. Since I don't have a picture

Ed and his planes 2010-03-17 16:31:19.000 - Ed O'Malley,  Summit Volunteer An Observer Hard At Work I've always been interested in history of all types, and in particular, aviation - planes, helicopters, and everything in between. When I was little (early 80s), I wrote a short poem about planes: Planes, planes, in the skyLeaving a trail as they go bySometime fat, sometimes thinNobody knows what's withinOff they go, without a traceMaybe to land in a very strange placeDuring my six weeks on the summit as a volunteer, and two summer visits, I've seen very little in the sky, other than

I love shoveling! 2010-03-16 21:43:49.000 - John Bauhs,  Summit Volunteer Shoveling the tower today. I love snow. I love to watch it fall and I love to shovel it. I especially love snow because I know I will have to shovel it. The more it snows, the more I have to shovel...it's a happy parallel. Growing up in Wisconsin, my dad let me do all the shoveling. As a young boy, before I was allowed to use the gas mower in the summer, snow shoveling was a 'big boy' thing to do...it made me feel proud to help my family

Dealing with a big drift 2010-03-15 22:46:56.000 - Brian Clark,  Observer and Meteorologist Here is my very scientific meteorological evaluation of the weather pattern on Mount Washington for the last several weeks:Sunny, sunny, sunny, STORM, sunny, sunny, sunny, STORMThe 'storm' part of that pattern has fallen on my shift for a while now. In fact, the latest storm just began to move out of the region this morning. Starting early Sunday morning and ending late this morning, we received over 17 inches of snow, all on moderate to strong east winds. Now last shift I wrote a lot about how

The 14th. 2010-03-14 22:15:44.000 - Ryan Knapp,  Staff Meteorologist 13 nails balanced on 1. March 14th has a few things going for it. If you live in the northeast, you are either cleaning up or experiencing a fairly strong Nor'easter that is moving up along the coast from the Mid-Atlantic. This storm brought a large bought of rain to everyone except for the elevations above 3000 feet. The deluge of rain meant flooding for some or the lost of snow packs for others. And along with the torrential rains, high winds brought downed trees damaging cars, houses or anything else

What Time is It? 2010-03-13 17:05:40.000 - Mike Finnegan,  IT Observer NULL With any luck, life here as the IT observer will be much the same tomorrow as it has been today; I will make progress on the programs I am working on, the programs that have been written will continue to work, and the servers will run with a constant hum, not punctuated by a reboot. I'm not sure this will be the case though, as tomorrow comes the scary time when the valley switches to Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) and the summit remains on Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Hiking to Mesonet Sites 2010-03-12 13:17:49.000 - Nick Lovejoy,  Summit Intern Halfway House on the Cog Railroad Yesterday I was asked to hike down the Cog track and check out a few locations for new mesonet sites. I couldn't have asked for a better day to take that trek. I started out skiing out of the front entrance of the observatory and then headed north down along the track.The wind was only blowing about 25MPH, it was 25 degrees out, and the sun was shining so brightly that by the end of the day my nose and cheeks were nice

An exciting EduTrip opportunity 2010-03-11 18:08:11.000 - Brian Clark,  Observer and Meteorologist One of Chef John's creations from New Years During my week off that just ended yesterday, temperatures soared into the 50's in the valley with plenty of sunshine. My time skiing and working at Attitash were spent wearing a light fleece jacket and at times, even just a vest. I even saw people out on road bikes on route 302. All signs that old man winter is starting to slowly lose his grip in the valley. As we would expect, here on the summit winter continues. Temperatures haven't

NULL 2010-03-10 04:19:02.000 - Tom Soisson,  Summit Volunteer NULL As a former science teacher, my greatest interests when spending time on the summit are the various science applications.There's the wind thing going on all the time. After taking ski trips to Utah, Colorado, Montana, and assorted New England areas, I have become impressed with the amount of wind we see in New England and have become used to the frequent wind scoured ice slopes when skiing. I've skied during storms in other locations and not seen as much wind as on a clear day in New England. We apparently live

NULL 2010-03-09 00:23:03.000 - Mike Carmon,  Staff Meteorologist NULL Our shift remains the good weather shift. Here's a comparison of some statistics of this shift week (3/3 - 3/9) vs. the other crew's last shift week (2/24 - 3/3). As a precedent, I attributed Wednesday's stats to the up-coming crew of the day. There is a bit of a flaw in that our shift is not concluded until tomorrow, but glancing at the forecast for both today and tomorrow, I'm sure most of our stats will not change (with the exception of an increase in sunshine minutes). Peak Gust:Them: 132