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Weather Note from Mount Washington

While we’ve been enjoying our beatiful fall weather, here comes a note from the north.  And not the Far North – from just 150 miles, a three-hour car ride north, comes the first snow of the year.  There’s enough snow on Mt. Washington to take out the snowboard.

I hurriedly put on my plastic boots, threw on my outerwear, and grabbed my snowboard to go make my first turns of the season. I knew there was a reason I left the board and boots up here after my last turns made nearly three months ago to the day.

Those pesky three months of spring, summer, and fall are over.  It’s back to winter on Mt. Washington.

Weather on Mt. Washington

Most of you know that I enjoy experiencing the extremes of weather – particularly when those are the winter extremes. I’ve always been fascinated by Mt. Washington in particular. I remember being a freshman in 1990 and finding that I could get up-to-the-hour weather updates from the mountain, and configured my Athena account to tell me the weather. Now, I’m a regular reader of the Mt. Washington Observatory blog. And maybe I’ll go on one of those EduTrips some day. . .


Until then, I’ll have to visit vicariously with YouTube. Here are 2 minutes and 6 seconds of frozen hilarity: