Fog (or Partly Cloudy as they say down in the valley) 2006-11-04 04:35:57.000 - Jon Cotton,  Observer NULL There really isn't much to say about the weather. No tales of high winds or yarns of treacherous deicing. High pressure has stationed itself over the eastern US bringing nothing exciting or even variable. Consistent west by northwest winds, cold temperatures, and fog has been and will continue to be the story. We've picked up 5 inches of snow in the last two days. But besides its horizontal passage across the deck, we can see none of it. I am looking forward

Fresh snow 2006-11-02 06:22:27.000 - Neil Lareau,  Observer NULL The severity of weather exhibited by this mountain over the past two weeks seems far away this morning. Winds are moderate and so to is the fresh snow that is falling, falling mostly as unbroken stellar dendrites and mixing with shattered wind propelled snow. In front of the various outdoor flood lamps there is a glitter of planning flakes. Right along the edge of the deck there is an obvious “jet streak” of wind. The accelerating flow in this zone is evidenced by parallel streaks of snow that show no evidence

Improving weather...and a video! 2006-10-31 06:40:43.000 - Jim Salge,  Observer NULL Yesterday was simply a hectic, and continued extreme day at the Observatory. After the highest blast to hit the peak in 10 years, winds were very slow to abate. Gusts over 100 mph continued until 5PM yesterday, making it 35 straight hours of winds above 100mph. Temperatures remained in the teens through the day as well, and with winchills below zero throughout the storm, I think this crew is tempered for winter.Last night conditions took a considerable up tick though. Skies cleared, winds dropped back into the normal 40mph

Highest gust in 10 years! 2006-10-30 08:40:31.000 - Jim Salge,  Observer Off the moderate speed chart!!! I was awakened at around 1:30AM last night by a thunderous roar throughout the building, a sound louder than I’ve ever heard in the building. And my memory wasn’t that short, wind speeds earlier in the day were topping 140mph with some regularity, so I knew this was big. I just about jumped out of bed with excitement and ran upstairs and found Mike Pelchat from state park also recently awakened eyeing the charts. Ryan was across the room checking the database by the

Rapid changes on the summit... 2006-10-29 09:00:11.000 - Ryan Knapp,  Observer Frozen Footprints... Working night’s means that I sleep during the day, but that proved to be difficult yesterday with winds blowing out of the southeast. When winds come from this direction, every time an observer uses the tower door, the winds funnel down the stairs and blow into the observatory living quarters. This in turn causes the bedroom doors and bedroom ceiling tiles to shake. So after waking up every hour thinking that my room was possessed by a poltergeist, I went to work.Waking, I found it raining with

Waiting for 100mph... 2006-10-28 13:10:30.000 - Bryan Farr,  Summit Intern Yesterday The end of October is certainly turning out to be a roller coaster ride for weather atop the Rockpile. A week ago winds gusted to 129 mph, some snow fell, followed by a nice day, then back in the clouds and snow to pick up around a foot on the ground, followed by bright sunshine and sun-baked warmth. All this quickly turned around to today’s myriad of snow and sleet, and wind speeds nearing 100 mph. Every hour is filled with de-icing our instruments, scraping the doorways and sweeping

Clear views of the snow-covered peaks... 2006-10-27 09:00:35.000 - Jim Salge,  Observer The snow-covered summit... I honestly think that it has been an entire year since the Northern Presidential Range has looked this white. The density and depth of the early season rime has allowed it to coated everything, and has trapped a large portion of the snow on all the slopes. Given the winter that we had last year, since last October’s record snowfall, I can’t remember them this evenly coated. Perhaps the lower density snow just blows off during mid-winter, perhaps summer is clogging my memory.The summit has

New Snow! 2006-10-26 13:10:03.000 - Bryan Farr,  Summit Intern Front Door Drifts... I think someone forgot to tell Mother Nature that we are only one month into autumn, as winter is in full force on the summit of Mount Washington this morning. Snow drifts reaching ten feet have been created by blowing snow and howling winds which yesterday peaked at 94 mph. A white hurricane continued to blow this morning with northwest winds nearing 80 mph causing pure whiteout conditions. We have picked up over 8 inches of snow, bringing our monthly total to 27.8 inches. Now if last year

Winter Shift Change 2006-10-25 14:47:14.000 - Jim Salge,  Observer Beginning shift change... There is something majestic about seeing Mount Washington snowcapped for the first time each season. I was driving north into Conway yesterday when the clouds parted allowing views right to the brilliantly white peak. I knew about all the snow, but I didn’t expect the full on winter look that now ensconced the peak. It was beautiful.Shift change today was done as if it were winter. And really, it is now winter...and despite the fact that this was the first time this season that I’ve put the chains

Skiing!! 2006-10-23 10:08:00.000 - Neil Lareau,  Observer Srevice road turns Following Jon’s lead from yesterday, today’s comments will be mostly pictures.But here are the details:It snowed; it’s still snowing. About 6” of dense snow are on the ground in an atypically evenly disturbed coating. It is lovely.I went skiing. Jon took a few pictures. Here they are:Clicking in |Getting to the service road ||Making turns |happiness |It could snow everyday this week. It will be cold, lots of readings in the teens. Next weekend there could be a bigger storm.****IMPORTANT BULLETIN*****The Sherman Adams Building (operated by New Hampshire State Parks)