A few questions arose when it came to the forecast for tonight into tomorrow. How much snow will we receive? Will the warm front bring summit temperatures above freezing? Will winds gust over 100 mph tomorrow evening? Snowfall and high winds are always exciting, and these things can be difficult to forecast, especially when winter has not fully arrived yet. Only time will tell. So far this month it feels like we’ve jumped back and forth from one season to the next. The weather conditions this shift have been drastically different from our previous week on the summit. Two weeks ago, on Sunday, November 8, we broke the daily high temperature record, reaching up to 50°F in the afternoon. It was the first of five days in a row where our record daily high temperature was either broken or equaled. 50 degrees may seem chilly, but for us, it was like we time-travelled back to summer! To give you an idea of how warm that is for this time of year, the all-time November temperature record at Mount Washington is 52°F. If it were an average November day, we might have reached somewhere in the lower to mid-20s. It may not have been shorts-and-a-t-shirt kind of weather, but it was as close as we were going to get in early November. We had relatively light winds, sunny skies, and spectacular views from the summit for days in a row. Even on the non-record-breaking days, we enjoyed well-above-average temperatures throughout the entire shift. The snow and ice that had built up during the previous week had all but melted out, with just a few deep patches lingering. I really enjoyed finishing off my night shifts with a sunrise each morning. Below is one such sunrise – the photo was taken from inside the rotunda.