Cold "High" Temperatures In New England Today

It's cold in New England today, and more chilly weather is forecast
for tomorrow. But don't worry, this type of thing often happens
in early June. Summer is not canceled, thank goodness

As previously advertised, it's a LOT colder in New England than it has been in recent days.

Sunday was gorgeous, with sunny to partly sunny skies in most places with temperatures in the 70s. Today, a few places will be lucky to make it to 50 degrees.  Some places are ridiculous, especially in eastern New England.

In normally chilly Whitefield, New Hampshire for instance, the temperature is forecast to stay in the 40s until Thursday. Nothing like March in June, huh?

I also saw one computer model yesterday that indicated snow in parts of Maine and New Hampshire. This particular model is wicked unreliable, so few, if any people will see snow. However, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a little snow or freezing rain atop Mount Washington, New Hampshire today and tomorrow.

Indeed, freezing rain was reported at the Mount Washington summit as of 7 a.m. today.

On the bright side, it was starting to get kind of dry in northern New England. My gardens in St. Albans, Vermont seemed a bit dusty yesterday. (We missed out on the expected rain last Friday.)

This is a classic early June episode. It seems that in many if not most years, you get one last blast of chilly spring weather this time of year before summer begins in earnest.

At least we won't have anything like the June snows of 1816, the "Year Without A Summer."

By the end of the week, we'll be back to something close to seasonable June weather. Expect highs by then to be back up into the 70s in many, if not most locations.

What It's Like To Be In The Worst Weather In The World, 100 MPH Plus Winds

A scientist at the Mount Washington Observatory in
New Hampshire goes airborne amid
109 mph gusts on Monday.  

A lot of us in northern New England were grumbling about the weather Monday, what with the May snows in many areas that brought a dusting to three inches to many mid and high elevations of northern Vermont, and close to eight inches in northern Maine.

Stop complaining.

The weather was nowhere near as bad where you were than atop Mount Washington in New Hampshire, but that's pretty much always the case.

Winds at the summit of Mount Washington often blow in excess of 100 mph, and once gusted to 231 mph, which was for decades a world record.

The Mount Washington Observatory at the mountain peak is constructed with three food thick concrete and three layers of bullet proof glass on windows to protect its occupants from the weather.

Of course, the occupants sometimes have to go outside, even in wild conditions, usually to de-ice weather equipment

Monday, it snowed on Mount Washington, of course, and the wind howled above 100 mph.

The Observatory released this now viral video of the guy going out to do the weather obs. Seemed a bit breezy to me!