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The Mount Washington Auto Road—originally the Mount Washington Carriage Road—is a 7.6-mile (12.2 km) private toll road on the east side of the mountain, rising 4,618 feet (1,408 m) from an altitude of 1,527 feet (465 m) at the bottom to 6,145 feet (1,873 m) at the top, an average gradient of 11.6%. The road was completed and opened to the ...
The weather observation station is located on the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire. The first regular meteorological observations on Mount Washington were conducted by the U.S. Signal Service , a precursor of the Weather Bureau , from 1870 to 1892.
Atop Mount Washington in New Hampshire, the wind chill hit −108 °F (−78 °C), the coldest wind chill in the United States, with an air temperature of −47 °F (−44 °C) combined with wind speeds of 97 mph (156 km/h).
Weather-watching on Mount Washington attracts applicants who sign on to experience weather's extremes. ... along with daily forecasts compiled at 5 a.m. and 5 p.m. Knapp's reports can spell safety ...
Aug. 23—Mount Washington provides a close-up view of Alpine weather, and 90 years of Mount Washington Observatory data provides a window on climate. "It's hard to find trends on a day-to-day ...
See how frigid your state has been in U.S. weather records. ... 1885, on Mount Washington, New Hampshire, ... 2019, in Mount Carroll, Illinois, when the temperature reached minus 38 degrees.
Christopher C. Burt, a weather historian writing for Weather Underground, believes that the 1913 Death Valley reading is "a myth", and is at least 2.2 or 2.8 °C (4 or 5 °F) too high. [13] Burt proposes that the highest reliably recorded temperature on Earth could still be at Death Valley, but is instead 54.0 °C (129.2 °F) recorded on 30 ...
A New Hampshire mountain known for its extreme weather conditions has recorded its snowiest June in 91 years of recordkeeping. Snowfall on Saturday atop Mount Washington brought the total amount ...