Finally, Mount Washington sits on the confluence of three major storm tracks. Storms hit the summit every three days on average in the winter, bringing high winds and huge amounts of precipitation, ...

We take great pride in New Hampshire to be the home of Mount Washington, which is known as having some of the most extreme ...

I have a secret fascination with the Mount Washington Observatory (MWOB), the weather station situated atop America’s windiest mountain. But the big story at MWOB this winter has been the wind.

This story appears in the February 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. Mount Washington rises rumpled and soft above the New Hampshire forests, beyond the brick towns, the old mills, and ...

Those working at the Mount Washington Observatory are no strangers to gusts. Summit gusts have exceeded 100 mph every three days in the winter.

The summit sees hurricane-force wind gusts more than 110 days of the year on average. The most powerful wind gust ever recorded by the Mount Washington Observatory was measured at 231 mph on April 21, ...

Following previous La Niña winters, the months of March through May (meteorological spring), have more often than not had a ...