Off to AMS! 2016-01-10 06:32:23.000 - Mike Dorfman, Weather Observer/IT Specialist   I’m writing this sitting in the Nashville Airport awaiting my flight to New Orleans to attend the American Meteorological Society’s annual conference. I’m very excited to be tabling during the career fair this evening, as well as presenting two posters-one on the past and current research projects utilizing Mount Washington Observatory’s regional mesonet, as well as one detailing our work on the summit of Mount Washington.  I’m really excited and glad I have the opportunity to represent the Observatory at such a huge event! To all of our

Wildcat Mesonet Site Gets Upgrades 2016-01-09 09:57:19.000 - Roger Pushor, IT Specialist   The Wildcat mesonet site has been converted from 12 to 24 volts to help improve power performance and allow us to install a new Axis P5534 720p webcam donated by one of our supporters. We've also reconfigured the solar panels to a 24 volt photovoltaic array and added a maximum power point tracking (MPPT) charge controller, also donated by a generous supporter, for charging the batteries installed during the last week of December. These charge controllers are much more sophisticated than the old Xantrex, are built around

New Year's Eve on the Summit 2016-01-01 11:20:40.000 - Krissy Fraser, Director of Marketing & Events   We rang in the New Year in fine fashion here on the summit of Mount Washington kicking off our winter trips season.  Friends joined us from near and far including Idaho, Texas, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Maryland to celebrate the New Year.  We started the day with a smooth snowcat ride piloted by operator extraordinaire Slim Bryant along with Co-Pilot Elissa Gramling.  Some of the guests weren’t quite sure what they were getting themselves into as we wound our way up the Auto

NCON3 Goes Live on the MWObs Mesonet Webpage 2015-12-29 17:37:44.000 - Roger Pushor, IT Specialist   After they finished helping Santa load his sleigh, some of Santa’s Elves were busy over the Christmas weekend getting the new RainWise MKIII-LR Weather Station located at the NCON3 site reporting on our Mesonet Map. RainWise Incorporated of Trenton, Maine, donated their top of the line automatic weather station that uploads temperature, precipitation, wind, barometric pressure and relative humidity data every minute to our Website. You’ll find the information from this site in the lower right corner of the map labeled “WDC” for Weather

A Decade Of Observing Mount Washington's Weather 2015-12-28 15:33:27.000 - Ryan Knapp, Weather Observer/Staff Meteorologist   Ten years ago to this day (December 28, 2005), I started working at the Mount Washington Observatory. I started as an intern but a month or so after arriving as an intern I was hired on as a temporary-full time observer. What this title meant was I was hired as an observer but I had until the end of my internship (May 2006) for the Observatory and I to decide whether or not I should continue as a full time observer. Since I am

A "Summitized" Christmas Carol 2015-12-25 05:49:47.000 - Ryan Knapp, Weather Observer/Staff Meteorologist   Over the years I have done “summitized” parodies of Christmas stories/songs and this year is no exception. In the past, I did a parody on the poem/song “The 12 Days of Christmas” titled “The 12 Days of Summit Christmas.” Another one was “Twas the Night Before Christmas” with an obs spin on how the story goes. This year, I am putting a twist on the song “Deck the Halls” which I am titling “Deck and Obs”. So as your reading it, put it to the tune of

Don't Panic Yet! Our Memory is Short! 2015-12-23 07:43:52.000 - Ed Bergeron, Weather Discovery Center   Today’s weather blog comes from the MWO headquarters in North Conway, where most of us live anyway. Last week there was a meeting in our conference room presented by the League of Conservation Voters where ski and lodging industry leaders spoke of the negative impact of recent warm temperatures and lack of snow on the local economy. Since winter began at 11:59 PM last night the concern and doomsday predictions may be a little premature. Let’s explore some temperature and snow climatology from the

Snowless Christmas? 2015-12-21 17:44:51.000 - Adam Gill, Summit Intern   Many places in New England will not experience a white Christmas this year, including the summit. We have an unusually warm air mass moving in mid-week that will cause the temperatures to get well above average. Temperatures for much of the east will see record highs on Christmas Eve with temperatures even getting into the mid 60s for areas along the coast! Up on the summit we are expecting temperatures to get into the upper 40s which could topple our all-time record high of 47 for the month of December!

The Cold is Here, But Not to Stay 2015-12-19 17:08:20.000 - Mike Carmon, Co-Director of Summit Operations   The uncharacteristically-warm December has taken a brief hiatus. While we were still experiencing the uncanny warmth yesterday that usually comes in September/October, the first truly potent cold front of the winter season came charging through last night, which has sent temperatures tumbling down to more expected levels. It's an interesting scenario: it feels much colder, almost too cold, but we're finally right about where we should be for December temperatures. And it only took nearly 20 days! I guess we're getting accustomed

Wintry Weather Ahead! 2015-12-17 19:55:17.000 - Tom Padham, Weather Observer/Meteorologist   After a very warm and mild start to the winter season so far across the higher elevations of New England, we’re all anxious for more in the way of snow, cold, and the high winds that make Mount Washington famous. The summit has been seeing rain and freezing rain today as temperatures hover near the freezing mark, which is roughly 15 degrees above average for mid-December. Behind this system much colder air will move in to northern New England. Beginning Saturday, temperatures will struggle to rise out of the single