Summary of July Comment 2009-07-31 16:31:59.000 - Alex Jacques,  Summit Intern Clouds below and above the summit. July of 2009 has certainly been a very wet month for the Observatory and New England in general. This month started off with rain showers on the first and is ending with plenty of rain this afternoon. Including this morning, the summit has received a grand total of 12.68 inches of liquid precipitation for the month of July. The July monthly record for the summit is 16.585 inches, which was set back in 1996. Unless we receive another 3.9 inches of rain before

A Delicious Week On The Summit! 2009-07-30 15:24:55.000 - Hedda Peterson,  Summit Intern Dotty and Ron A shift week for us always begins in the employee parking lot at the base of the Auto Road, at 8:30 AM. Everyone crams their luggage into the back of the van and piles in for the half hour ride up! Hugs and hellos are exchanged and as we chat about what we did on our off weeks. This week's meeting at the Auto Road was especially high spirited and led me to believe that a very good week was to follow!This feeling did

Science in the Mountains 2009-07-29 11:12:37.000 - Scott Wehrwein,  Summit Intern NULL If you're in the White Mountains area, come check out this evening's installment of the Mount Washington Observatory's Science in the Mountains program. Every Wednesday evening of this summer, we'll be using video conferencing technology to travel to science centers around the world to learn about our environment from experts on various topics.This week, we're taking a trip down under to the Reef HQ Aquarium, where just about 65 million years ago, the Australian continent formed a part of the land mass called Gondwana, which was located in

NULL 2009-07-28 09:19:39.000 - Amy Terborg,  Summit Intern NOTE: If you attended Seek the Peak 9, we'd love to get your opinion of the event. Complete this survey for a chance to win a La Crosse Technology WD-3105U Weather Direct Forecast Station or an L.L. Bean fleece jacket! Goodbye. Seven letters, two syllables, and often a few tears. However, most people miss the fact that the first half of the word says 'good'...as in good friends, good memories, and good experiences. If you have had all those then your goodbye should really be a good bye. Tomorrow it will be

STP 2009-07-27 17:46:42.000 - Karen Hemeon,  Membership & Events Coordinator NULL On behalf of all of us here at the Obs, I want to thank each and every oneof you who participated in Seek the Peak as a hiker, sponsor or donor.Through your hard work and generosity, Seek the Peak 9 brought in $113,000for the nonprofit Mount Washington Observatory, making it the mostsuccessful fundraiser in the 77-year history of our organization!Despite the less-than-beautiful weather, 343 dedicated Obs fans made theclimb to the summit--an increase of almost 100 hikers over last year'sevent! 220 people took advantage of the opportunity to tour

STP 2009-07-27 17:37:28.000 - Karen Hemeon,  Membership & Events Coordinator NULL On behalf of all of us here at the Obs, I want to thank each and every oneof you who participated in Seek the Peak as a hiker, sponsor or donor.Through your hard work and generosity, Seek the Peak 9 brought in $113,000for the nonprofit Mount Washington Observatory, making it the mostsuccessful fundraiser in the 77-year history of our organization!Despite the less-than-beautiful weather, 343 dedicated Obs fans made theclimb to the summit--an increase of almost 100 hikers over last year'sevent! 220 people took advantage of the opportunity to tour

A Successful Seek The Peak 2009-07-26 07:29:38.000 - Scott Wehrwein,  Summit Intern NULL The Observatory area of the Sherman Adams building is normally a fairly quiet place, closed to the non-member public. Aside from EduTrips and members on tours, we usually have fewer than ten people in our home/office on the summit. Yesterday, that all went out the window as we opened our doors to more than 200 hikers who made it to the summit as participants in Seek The Peak, our biggest fundraiser of the year.With help from a number of volunteers we welcomed hikers, giving them tours, letting

Marty update and STP 2009-07-24 14:25:18.000 - Stacey Kawecki,  Observer and Meteorologist We are all very saddened by the passing of Nin, but we must remember our current furry mascot, Marty. Marty has recently been through some tough times. After another trip to the vet and valley, he came back up on Wednesday and was not quite himself. In fact, he cried all the way up and then hid behind the TV at State Park for most of the day. Upon inspection, we found him with less teeth and a pain patch on his back paw. We think the latter

Nin Remembered 2009-07-23 04:59:06.000 - Scot Henley,  Executive Director Nin, hard at work in the weather room in 2005 Mount Washington Observatory has lost an old friend. Nin, the Observatory's beloved mascot for more than a decade, passed away on July 14.A rescued stray cat from Vermont, Nin found his way to the Observatory in the mid 1990's with former observer Mark Ross-Parent. Over the twelve years that Nin ruled the summit, his furry face became nearly as well known as the mountain's weather itself. He brought joy to weather observers, interns, volunteers, visitors, website viewers and fans across the

Vol experience 2009-07-21 22:19:30.000 - Summit Volunteer,  Summit Volunteer Out hiking! Observer's Note:Don't forget to join us Wednesday evening at the Weather Discovery Center in North Conway Village at 7PM for Science in the Mountains: A Passport to Science. Through video conferencing technology, we'll travel to science centers around the world to learn about our environment from the experts in the field! Join us on July 22 at 7PM when we visit the Biospheré in Montreal to talk to René Brunet about the latest scientific information on air quality and climate change, their impacts on the environment and what we