Sunday, February 12, 2017

Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire

This is one of several favorite locations I use when analyzing weather data. It's claim is 'the world's worst weather'.

I just happened to notice the other day that Mount Washington, at an elevation of 6288 ft, recorded the nation's low temperature at -22 degrees (does not include Alaska).

In addition, winds averaged nearly 70 mph for the day with a peak gust of 120 mph.

Since the average temperature for that day came to -11 (high of -1 and low of -22), and winds averaged nearly 70 mph, the wind chill was a take-my-breath-away -50 degrees.

With the next impending system, snowfall is expected to be in the 2-feet range and, depending on the exact track of the storm system, winds could gust to between 100 and 150 mph.

Check out the site.

https://www.mountwashington.org/

MS

No comments:

Post a Comment

Tornadoes on Easter Sunday

This is a worse case scenario. Tornadoes and flooded, blocked roadways making for great difficulties reaching residences affecting hard hit ...