The return of the uh...sun ball. 2007-04-11 07:41:16.000 - Jon Cotton,  Observer At least there is fog in the background There is something bright outside this morning and I do not know what it is. It pierces my eye in such an unusual manner than I can't help but feel like I should be inside. I looked the bright thing up on Wikipedia and apparently it is called a 'sun'. Well, you learn new things every day as a weather observer. I'll be going down to the valley today to explore more of this phenomena. Well, actually what can be

Easter Fun 2007-04-09 06:22:48.000 - Jon Cotton,  Observer The obvious part of the candy hunt Well, Easter was quite a success up here. We prepared well for it. All of us brought goodies along with the normal weekly items so we were pretty well stocked for candy. The figuring being it wasn't quite warm enough yet for rabbits to hop with baskets. (Although I'm sure after months of winter rations the fox would have welcomed any attempts...I mean to say that foxes enjoy hollow chocolate bunnies.) The way Sunday played out was much like a fine dining experience of multiple

Happy Easter - Bunnies for Everyone! 2007-04-08 07:13:42.000 - Jon Cotton,  Observer Treasure eggs Well it is that day isn't it? Happy Easter!Alan took advantage of the short window of clearing yesterday to create some cloud video. It starts with varying fog blowing overhead followed by a rolling sea of complete undercast at sunsetWe've got a fresh breeze pushing formerly ground-based snow into circulation and snow showers look to continue through tomorrow along with more fog. You ever have that experience of saying a word over and over so many times that it loses meaning? I believe that will happen

NULL 2007-04-07 11:07:53.000 - Kyle Paddleford,  Observer Sailing the high seas I got out of bed this morning and headed to the weather room for a quick discussion of the weather with the night observer. As I was preparing to go out and do my first observation of the day, I peered out the window and noticed we were still in the fog. Glancing at the previous observations indicated that light snow was still falling on the summit for the fourth day in a row! I bent down to tie my boots before stepping out into the winter landscape and

A Happy Crew 2007-04-05 18:52:54.000 - Kyle Paddleford,  Observer Yankee Drift Making A Comeback The snow has been falling since shift change yesterday and will continue to do so through the evening. The other crew is happy because they are finally in the valley for a good storm and are able to hit the slopes while the snow is good. We are happy because our shift has been asking for a good winter storm on the summit for a while and we finally got it. It seems to me that this fits the definition of a win-win situation. Snow totals

Volunteers Reflect 2007-04-04 08:32:18.000 - Charlie and Jeanine Kinney,  Summit Volunteers Spring on the summit... How does one capsulate a myriad of experiences over a period of time which by the calendar was only a week? Having read numerous comments from the observatory over many years there aren’t enough new adjectives to explain the sensation of being on Mt. Washington. This trip was our third and, by far, the busiest but that only adds to the excitement. Mt Washington in March means bring along skis, but alas, there was nothing to put them on that resembled snow. Oh well, with

NULL 2007-04-03 09:01:54.000 - Jim Salge,  Observer Presidentials Window Considering that we had April in early January, it’s only fair that we get a bit of January in April. Light snow moved in yesterday, and combined with some rather heavy rime and glaze icing, has re-flocked the mountain in a showy winter coat. Visibility on the summit is limiting the ability to take a picture of the new snow for the website, so we’ll leave it to the webcams today. This shot, one of the more unique I’ve seen, was taken from the new Presidentials cam this morning. It shows

NULL 2007-04-02 10:04:31.000 - Brent Antkowiak,  Summit Intern Me above the bowl... With the temperatures expected to reach the freezing mark, light winds, and nearly clear skies, we were certain that the eastern snow fields would soften up yesterday and make for some great spring skiing/snowboarding. So the plan for myself was to pack up and head out during the afternoon to get some turns. The action began early though, as just before noon, I was sitting at my desk working hard on my project when Jim mentioned that it was clouding up, potentially losing any solar help to loosen

April fools joke on us... 2007-04-01 11:09:27.000 - Jim Salge,  Observer NULL Typically we would have spent this comment writing about some nonsensical April Fools joke, and honestly we had one all lined up. Something about John McCain and Joe Biden visiting the Observatory on a campaign stop, and then in a display of bipartisanship, skiing down together over the headwall like the late, great Gerald Ford had done during his years leading up to the office. Would have been fun...But honestly, anything we write here couldn’t top the real life April Fools that Mother Nature is playing on our

Clear skies and a look ahead... 2007-03-30 07:52:37.000 - Jim Salge,  Observer Sad snowfields sunrise... I think that this is the longest stretch of fogless weather that I’ve seen on the peak since October. Clear skies and clear horizons were the dominant (lack of) weather reported yesterday in our observations, and views extended right to Mount Whiteface in New York at sunset last night. No fog since our arrival midday Wednesday!Having not caught a sunset in some time up here, it was amazing to me how far the sun has transited north on the horizon since the dead of winter.