Beautiful day in the neighborhood 2008-01-13 13:39:42.000 - Stacey Kawecki,  Observer Everyone awake, bright and early A smile has been on my face since I woke up this morning. I could not ask for a better day. There are three very helpful, excited, early-rising interns on the summit this week, a third observer has been added to this shift (after two very grueling weeks of only two observers), and the weather is just amazing. Visibility is up to 120 miles; the ocean was clearly visible this morning, as was Sebago Lake, and mountains in Canada. Winds are as calm as

Introduction of Mr. Ryan Buckley 2008-01-11 11:37:31.000 - Ryan Buckley,  Summit Intern Nice Picture of Tower Hello Mt. Washington Cohorts,My name is Ryan Buckley I am a civil engineering student at Wentworth Institute of Technology and I will be the winter intern on Mike, Stacey and Kyle’s shift. I will be up here until the beginning of May when I start class for a required summer semester. Every intern has to work on a project up at the observatory. To make this an acceptable co-op with both the Mount Washington Weather Observatory and Wentworth an engineering school, I had to

The Return to the Summit 2008-01-10 10:17:16.000 - Mike Finnegan,  IT Observer NULL Life has lead me once again to the summit. I worked last winter as an intern, now returning to work as an IT Observer. Although I’ve only been gone 7 months, many changes have taken place. The server room has a solid UPS system in place, there are two new ceilometers on the observation deck, the summit is on grid power, and there are three observers per shift instead of two. Furthermore, you may recall from last year around this time that this shift seemed to lack

Results of the Mascot Primary! 2008-01-09 07:34:02.000 - Brian Clark,  Observer A rather snowless summit.... I know that most people are visiting the website this morning to see which cat-idate was victorious in our Mascot Primary. Well, I’m going to hold you in suspense for just another moment while I tell you about the weather we have been seeing on the summit. After all, our main reason for being here is to observe the weather, right? We haven’t talked much about the weather lately, mostly because of the excitement of the aforementioned Mascot Primary. In this observer’s humble opinion, one

Observatory Farm 2008-01-07 21:42:25.000 - Lynn Metcalf,  Former Summit Lynntern Ryan and Steve shoveling The infamous duo who act under the moniker of “Twinterns” are back on the summit! For educational purposes I have included a helpful definition: Twin-tern [n, twin-turn]1.One of a pair of interns (Lynntern or Cathy), who worked at theobs during the summer of 2007: I need a twintern to shovel snow. [Origin: June 2007; from twin interns, referring to Lynn and Cathy’s identical outfits.]As I left my family farm, I was prepared to see my calloused hands soften and my muscles wither from lack of use.

Crossword 2008-01-07 01:13:11.000 - Ryan Knapp,  Staff Meteorologist Crossword. Yeah! A new month means new monthly climatological statistics, something I look forward to each month because it combines two things I really enjoy, history and weather. At the end of each month, our daily forms are gathered, sorted, checked for errors, compiled, and sent out. Some statistics are easy to find while other take a bit of work. It almost feels a bit like a crossword puzzle. So to give you all a feeling of what I had to go through, I decided instead of just spewing out facts, I

Reflections 2008-01-05 22:13:45.000 - Cathy Radonic,  (Former) Summit Intern NULL As I sat and tried to think of a word to describe how I felt while driving to the base of the mountain this morning, I realized there wasn’t a single good word (not even a big SAT one) to sum up everything. I was excited, anxious, curious, and when I saw the towering snow covered Mt. Washington from Rt. 16 in North Conway, I was almost in pure awe. I had to reassure myself: “That’s where you’re going. Yes, up there.” Once I got to the base, and was

Election News 2008-01-05 01:11:07.000 - Ryan Knapp,  Staff Meteorologist NULL Update: The following was posted on the Conway Area Humane Societies Youtube.com account. To best see the video, click on "expand" or "Observer Comments"on the bar above.

Dear Diary... 2008-01-03 22:08:58.000 - Ryan Knapp,  Staff Meteorologist It looks like art to me. If I kept a journal, it may read like this for the past three days...Tuesday New Years Day! Aubrie (former intern), Brian (observer) and I went skiing to ring in the New Year. Snow was not expected until 4 pm that day but when we arrived at the resort at 11 am, a few flakes began to fall followed by more and more with each minute. When we were forced to quit due to the resort closing for the night, there was about 8 inches

NULL 2008-01-02 01:39:38.000 - Jason Hill,  Summit Volunteer Summit Fox My second week volunteering at the observatory (first time in the winter) began last Wednesday with only four of us on the summit. We had a couple of relaxing days; the skies were clear and we had little wind, snow or ice. All of that changed on Saturday when an EMS guided climbing group reached the summit while high winds and snow were moving in. My primary task as a volunteer is to keep everyone up here well fed, and the amount of cooking in the observatory kitchen has steadily