Battles with Blowing Snow 2019-02-18 10:57:20.000 - Ian Bailey, Weather Observer/Education Specialist   Mt. Washington is home to the World’s Worst Weather. If you are from the area, a frequent visitor or have been to the summit, you have likely heard this before. And there is a lot of truth in that statement! We see insane wind speeds throughout the year, frequently gusting to or above 100 mph. We see incredible amounts or snow and ice, with the snow pack sometimes lasting well into the summer! And for 2/3 of the year, we have fog with low visibility! Over the

The Wonders of the World 2019-02-16 07:42:12.000 - Jay Broccolo, Summit Intern   When I woke up this morning, knowing I was going to write a blog post today, I had no idea what I was going to discuss. I played with the idea of discussing the weather, but I figured there are plenty of outlets for that happen through our forecasts, FB live events, and social media, to mention a few. I made my coffee and headed up to the weather room remembering that the skies had cleared before I went to bed, so there was still a chance

The Anything-But Calm Before the Storm! 2019-02-11 08:31:34.000 - Chloe Boehm, Summit Intern   The summit this weekend saw a pretty incredible wind event with a peak gust of 148 mph. Although the highest winds were on Saturday, Friday morning saw the most dramatic increase in wind speed. The winds jumped from 45 mph to 124 mph in just 7 minutes! For those of us working in the weather room, it seemed to come out of nowhere! One minute we could barely hear the wind at all, and the next, a roar of wind erupted. (Picture of the wind gust

An Account of the 148 mph Storm 2019-02-10 09:14:33.000 - Thomas Padham, Weather Observer/Education Specialist   The past 36 hours on the summit were an amazing show of the power of nature, and one that I’ll personally remember for a lifetime. Winds topped 148 mph at approximately 6:50 AM on February 9th, 2019, shattering my previous personal record of 133 mph! The storm was by far the most impressive wind event I’ve witnessed in my 6 years on the summit, here’s some more details on what it was like to be up here during the storm. Surprisingly, I slept very

Summer 2019 Internships 2019-02-08 06:12:03.000 - Thomas Padham, Weather Observer/Education Specialist   Although the calendar reads February and we’ve still got a lot of winter to go, it’s not too early to start thinking about the summer season! I personally started here at the Observatory as a summer intern, and it was a decision that helped shape my career today. We are accepting applications through March 5th, so there’s only a few more weeks to go. The summer internship can still have a taste of winter! Summer 2018 intern Simon helped de-ice the instrumentation in June.  The summer internship is

Windy Year Statistics so Far 2019-02-04 13:28:45.000 - Adam Gill, Weather Observer/IT Specialist   There have been several blogs so far over the past few weeks that have been talking about how windy this winter has been compared to past winters. I pulled together some data and did some light analysis on it to see how it stacks up as well. I grabbed daily average winds and then created a Boolean where if the day had winds over 100 it was 1 and if not it was zero. I then created a running average over 365 days for the wind

From Day to Night 2019-02-02 15:18:55.000 - Ian Bailey, Weather Observer/Education Specialist   It certainly has been an interesting shift so far. This is our first week back after our Night Observer Chris moved on from the Observatory. Obviously there is a bit of a void, as Chris is a great meteorologist who brought a lot of heart and character to our crew. You can tell that everyone misses him pretty badly, with each us of dealing with his departure differently. I mean, even several of the New Hampshire State Parks crew have come around asking if he is still

My 5th Volunteer Trip! 2019-02-01 13:32:18.000 - Jeffrey Swanson, Summit Volunteer   This year marked my fifth volunteer trip to the MWObs weather station on the summit of Mt Washington. I have always enjoyed these trips, with each one offering a different perspective. This trip our team was locked in the clouds with wind, rain, and snow. We achieved clearing on Monday that offered our first opportunity for photographs! A significant part of what volunteers do here is to prepare meals for the summit teams and the visiting day and overnight trips to the observatory. This years hiking groups had

Oh the Places You'll Go! 2019-01-26 15:41:37.000 - Taylor Regan, Weather Observer and Research Specialist   Each year, the American Meteorological Society hosts a conference, bringing together folks on the forefront of scientific discovery, as well as their research. It is an event that hosts thousands of like-minded scientists and weather enthusiasts, and results in providing real-time peer-to-peer feedback on some of the most innovative and novel applications of science as we currently understand it. The conference also provides resources for a variety of educational panels, short-course workshops, and a massive meeting of companies either well established, or entrepreneurial, each

MWO Researchers Participate in 99th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting 2019-01-24 15:24:12.000 - Dr. Eric Kelsey, Director of Research   Research Specialist Observer, Taylor Regan, and I, Dr. Eric Kelsey, flew cross-country to Phoenix, Arizona for the 99th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting. AMS is the world’s largest professional society for meteorology and its membership includes operational meteorologists, National Weather Service and NOAA employees, private sector scientists and engineers, instrumentation manufacturers, university professors and researchers, college students, climatologists, astrophysicists, ecologists, biologists, and more. The annual meetings held every January attract over 4000 people from around the world each year.