Temperature record broken for Mt Washington

Mount Washington Observatory
‎** NEW RECORD **
New daily record high of 46°F set for March 18th; Previous record of 37°F set on March 18th, 1945.

Today's temp at midnight is also a record for today.

Tim

Got Snow? The White Mountains of Arizona are looking pretty good lately.

Um. Yeah. I took a nap on Ike on Saturday. A nap. Right in the nipple (next to the cairn at the top, for those of you who haven't made the connection). In March. And I didn't even layer up before laying down.

wonder how this bodes for the rest of the year; warm and wet, warm and dry, cold and wet, cold and dry ? or are we just now correcting for what we got last winter ?

It seems like the weather boomeranged. I was so geared up for another high-snow year and being able to snowshoe in CT.

hikerbrian said:

Um. Yeah. I took a nap on Ike on Saturday. A nap. Right in the nipple (next to the cairn at the top, for those of you who haven't made the connection). In March. And I didn't even layer up before laying down.

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I took a nap on a hilltop with no name, trail or notable prominence.

I wore a sleeping pad.

bikehikeskifish said:

‎** NEW RECORD **
New daily record high of 46°F set for March 18th; Previous record of 37°F set on March 18th, 1945.
Today's temp at midnight is also a record for today.

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Make that four daily records in a row. Temps are now up to 30 degrees above average. The new record high for March 19th is eleven degrees higher than the old record!

March 18: New daily record high of 46°F; Previous record of 37°F set on March 18th, 1945.
March 19: New daily record high of 49°F; Previous record of 38°F set on March 19th, 1968.
March 20: New daily record high of 49°F (not yet official as of this writing); Previous record of 40°F set on March 20th, 1938.
March 21: New daily record high of 45°F (as of midnight; forecast to go even higher); Previous record of 43°F set on March 21st, 1976.

Steve
data from www.mountwashington.org

See the observer's comments today... http://www.mountwashington.org/weather/comments/

22:45 Wed Mar 21st
photo - see caption below
Northern Prezis in May...err...March

Today was a near-historic day on the summit.

The theme of the past few comments has been very consistent-it's unseasonably warm. I'm sure that point has been hammered home, whether you've experienced it first hand or not. However, there's a difference between just eeking out new records, which is normally the case during a stretch of unseasonable weather, and completely shattering them.

Our record high for today was a mere 43F. So far today (with only a scant few hours left), we have not fallen BELOW this figure. That's right--our daily low temperature today has not fallen below the record HIGH for the day. That's quite a feat....


Today's photo, from the OBS web site.

Tim

Here's hoping for an early and extended alpine wildflower season

A relief to see today's summit conditions...a peak gust of 96 mph and temperatures in the 30s. That's more like it

hikerbrian said:

...And I didn't even layer up before laying down.

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Careful, that's how babies happen.

Prediction: mid-to-late-April crazy winter-like storm. 15" in the Twins-Guyot-Zealand area.

Chip, maybe a month ago, WCVB-TV’s Harvey Leonard listed the five winters with the least amount of snowfall, and said that four of them were followed by drier than normal summers.