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

Peter 2007-12-11 18:02:06.000 - Peter Sciola,  Summit Intern Monthly Sky Cover Scores Intern’s Log: stardate -316942.46 – This will be my last entry in this log…Somehow this week flew by even though nothing exciting happened in terms of weather conditions. Of course this may all change tomorrow for shift change when sustained winds of over 90 mph and gusts well above 100 mph are forecasted. I guess it is appropriate that the highest winds I will ever experience may occur on my last day here on the summit. As you may have already gathered, this was the final week of

WCBS-2 visits the summit 2007-12-10 11:03:20.000 - Brian Clark,  Observer Some of the crew with Jim Cantore The subject of today’s comment is actually something that occurred last Wednesday. This just happens to be the first chance I have had to write about it.The Observatory has been getting quite a bit of media attention lately, not that this is anything new. Of course, the most notable media exposure was Good Morning America’s live broadcast from the summit in mid November. This past Wednesday we had yet another television station visit us for the day to film.This time it was WCBS-2

Self Interview 2007-12-08 22:29:11.000 - Ryan Knapp,  Staff Meteorologist NULL The following interview took place in an observer’s head between Imaginary Reporter (IR) and Staff Meteorologist (SM) the night of December 8th, 2007:IR: Good evening and thanks for having me here. For the record, spell your name and where you are from. SM: Sure. It’s Ryan, R-Y-A-N, Knapp, K-N-A-P-P from Berlin, B-E-R-L-I-N, New Hampshire, N-H.IR: Great, thanks. Alright, let’s start with the weather. What’s happening outside right now? SM: Well, at the last observation, we had blowing snow and freezing fog with a visibility of 1/16 of a mile and