Twas da Nite B4 Christmas (OBS Style) 2007-12-25 00:33:41.000 - Ryan Knapp,  Staff Meteorologist NULL ‘Twas the night before Christmas, and up on the summitTemperatures were cold as they started to plummet. Our stockings were hung below the TV with care, In hopes that a man in red would soon be there. The day shift was nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of cookie men danced in their heads; And Nin in his box and me in my gearBoth dreamt that the morning would soon be here. When up on the deck there rose such a clatter, I

Back Online! 2007-12-24 14:05:04.000 - Brian Clark,  Observer Back online! Great success! Just a quick comment to update the previous one. Our connection to the valley and the outside world is back up and running thanks to our IT observer Steve!It turns out that we used a bad cable(which of course we thought was good) to replace a bad cable. Steve tried using a known good cable from another one of our point to point radios here on the summit, and voila!Look for the new ObsCast later today, as well as a new comment tonight. We will also update all

Communication troubles 2007-12-24 12:13:52.000 - Brian Clark (via fax machine),  Summit Observer NULL We are experiencing communications troubles, please read below:Sunday was a long day for the crew up here on the summit. Our Internet connection to the outside world is via a microwave radio link from an antenna on the top of our tower to an antenna on the roof of the Weather Discovery Center in North Conway, and then out to the World Wide Web via a standard cable Internet connection. Yesterday morning, the quality of the radio connection to the valley began to degrade. Steve decided to

Aubrie Pace Intern Project 2007-12-22 19:49:59.000 - Aubrie Pace,  Summit Intern NULL For my past few months on the summit, I have been working on an intern research project. I started with the idea of gathering statistics of weather data from the past 75 years. That quickly snowballed as I realized all of this weather data was located in written records on B16 weather forms. I had two options: go through with a calculator and get my numbers or try making a database. To my relief, I found out that The Observatory had made a database with the records. This

Darkness 2007-12-21 03:03:57.000 - Ryan Knapp,  Staff Meteorologist Moonlight captured by our webcams A dark time has fallen upon the summit staff of Mount Washington. But worry not; it has nothing to do with death, instrument lost, or anything else devastating. Instead, I am referring to the length of our nights. As the winter solstice approaches Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 1:08 A.M. EST marking the first “day” of winter, the nights are stretching out to the longest amounts of the year. So that means that nights around this date last for 14 hours and 57 minutes on the summit.

Dear Santa... 2007-12-20 02:41:16.000 - Ryan Knapp,  Staff Meteorologist NULL Dear Santa-I forgot to mail our letter to you this year. I was going to email it but I seemed to have misplaced your email. So a comment post will have to suffice especially since I heard that you check out our webpage every morning before checking your list of naughty and nice.So to begin. We have been a good boys and girls all year. We fed our kitty every morning and every night and even let him sit in our laps. We were kind to all our guests big

Volunteer report 2007-12-18 12:31:29.000 - Jon Gale,  Summit Volunteer NULL When I volunteered for a week in the winter at the Observatory, I was hoping to experience some extreme weather. Last Wednesday I had the pleasure of riding up to the summit in the in the copilot seat of the State’s Cat with Mike Pelchat. At times the conditions were white out and Mike had to stop the Cat and wait for some signs of the road. At the summit the winds were blowing at a sustained speed of 85 mph and gusting near 100 mph. I got my wish

NULL 2007-12-17 09:30:15.000 - Stacey Kawecki,  Observer Gotta Love It It’s been a very interesting week on top of Mount Washington, thus far. First of all, Zach is not with us this week, and this is my first time being on days by myself. This has resulted in me spending some time after dinner finishing up some paper work almost every night. If you frequent the website and check out the current conditions often, you might have noticed a very strange phenomenon. On Wednesday, winds appeared to go completely calm. This was not the case. Repeating the gut-wrenching experience that

New exhibits at the WDC 2007-12-15 06:06:25.000 - Kyle Paddleford,  Observer NULL So far the crew has only seen fifteen minutes worth of sunshine since arriving on the summit Wednesday. We have been obscured by clouds and what has seemed like endless light snow and snow showers. That will all change today when skies become mostly clear and the sun shines brightly upon the summit. I'll be sleeping through the day so my total sunshine minutes will stay at zero presumably for the rest of the week. Zach is off this week, so I am covering on nights while he

Naturally 2007-12-13 15:08:37.000 - Karen Thorp,  Summit Intern NULL Yesterday the summit was shrouded with clouds and bombarded with high winds. The peak gust was received at 11:52 AM at a speed of 117 MPH. Despite the blustery weather and low visibility our fearless CAT driver plowed us all the way to the peak; allowing the observers, interns, and volunteer who had worked the prior week to head to their respective cozy homes.Today the summit cleared early increasing the horizontal visibility to 100 miles. This clarity allowed us to see what exactly 100 MPH winds can bring. As Linnea and