World’s Worst Weather !

Mount Washington Observatory has been monitoring the elements at one of the planet’s most extreme places.   Mount Washington is a rocky, windswept summit in New Hampshire with bitter cold, dense ice fog, heavy snow, and record wind gusts.   The Observatory sits at 6, 288 feet and has earned the title of the Worst Weather on the Globe.   I am writing this at 6:59 pm West Coast Time, 9:45 pm at Mount Washington, NH.  The temperature at 9:45 pm on March 4th, 2010 is 9.9 degrees with the wind out of the NE at 39.5 miles per hour making the wind chill 14.9 degrees below zero.  Burrrrrrr

NOTE: New Hampshire’s Mount Washington has LOST its distinction as the place with the highest wind gust ever recorded on Earth.    It used to be 231 miles per hour at Mount Washington, NH.  A panel from the World Meteorological Organization was reviewing extreme weather and climate data and they turned up a 253 mile per hour gust on AUSTRALIA’S BARROW ISLAND during CYCLONE OLIVIA IN 1996.

WIND AND DRIVING SNOW ARE COMMON AT THE HIGHEST PEAK IN THE NE U.S.

MOUNT WASHINGTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE