Last week my family spent the night at Lonesome Lake Hut in the White Mountains (we were the only folks there, so the caretaker let us sleep next to the wood stove in the main room rather than in an unheated bunkhouse - ahhhhh!). There was more snow than I had expected after seeing the [...]

First we lost the Old Man of the Mountain - now we’re losing claim to “world’s fastest wind”!
The World Meteorological Organization has confirmed that a gust of 253.5 mph (408 km/h) was directly measured at ground level in Australia during Tropical Cyclone Olivia on April 10, 1996, breaking the 231 mph (372 km/h) maesurement made [...]

Sound the global warming panic bells! Check this statement from the Mount Washington Observatory:
As of this past Saturday, Mount Washington was a staggering 7.4 degrees (F) warmer than the average November, 6.71 inches of liquid precipitation dryer then the average November and a whopping three feet of snow behind  where we should [...]

That question (”what wind speed will blow you over?”) was asked on the Mount Washington Observatory forum. Here’s the response - not sure if you need to be a member to read it.
The answer was (as always) “it depends” - such things as on your center of gravity (carrying a backpack worsens it) and your [...]