New Hampshire has broken some records.
We have had relatively mild winters in the northern suburbs of Chicago in recent years. What I miss, the big snows, but not the sub zero cold that I recall. Late in the 70s or early 80s, some of the temps reached well below zero with windchills to -80, power outages, snapped lines and trees. Houses that got very cold. It was hard to go anywhere safely, for fear the car would break down or there would be no power at the destination. Space heaters of the kerosene variety became popular, though not the safest solution. And well below zero days were many, one January.
The Northeast is getting a frigid breath from mom nature. In the northeast, Mt. Washington, New Hampshire is getting the coldest and nastiest of all. Last night I recall watching the weather channel and seeing the stats of -50 to -52 degrees farenheit with windchills making that temperature feel like -108.
I do not believe any of us wants to think about how -108 feels, -30 is bad enough. I forgot what those windspeeds were, but they were pretty stiff. [currently, Mount Washington at weather.com]
I woke this morning and decided to search for more about this MT Washington weather story, and find that MT. Washington is know by many as a place with the *world's worst weather*, see Mount Washington weather Observatory. I guess that is correct, because the weather at the north and south poles looks downright balmy and calm compared to what happens in New Hampshire.
Anyway, further searching brings me to a story about Bill Evans[WABC-TV Ch 7 Meteorologist, New York] and crew. The group of 3[?] ventured up to MT. Washington this last week and got stranded on the mountain an extra day because the buggy(snow tractor) could not retrieve them in -75 degree farenheit temps with 110 mile per hour winds. The windchills were probably well below -100 degrees farenheit.
Bill Evans is back from Mt. Washington, and he brought videos.
Some fun activities, in sub frigid weather?
A water bottle filled with warm water, sprayed into the clear night air might be fun? Light up that area, and or have someone take a picture with some flash photography. I wonder what happens when you throw a few warm filled water balloons against a tree(don't forget to pick up the balloon pieces)? How about those bottles of bubbles, what happens to those blown in the sub freezing air? Yes, there is a lot of fun things to do with the children in sub zero weather, just make sure everyone is layered up well.
Well, there is my twisted, challenged, scientific, and childish mind at work, but you know I would try this myself, and may at our own sub zero weather, if we get more.
Posted by Holly at January 16, 2004 09:08 AM | TrackBack