The expansion of the Mount Washington weather network will provide real-time data for skiers, hikers and skaters heading to New Hampshire, but it will also help improve Maine forecasts and preview storm systems heading into the Pine Tree State.
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Posted inMaine, News
UMaine building statewide network of weather stations
The 26 automated stations will be installed throughout the state to improve forecasts and severe weather alerts, and to help farmers and foresters manage weather-related risks.
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Posted inNation / World, New England, News
Backcountry skier dies on Mount Washington in icy conditions; 2 others injured
The three people got into trouble Saturday afternoon at Tuckerman Ravine, an area popular with backcountry skiers, according to officials.
Posted inNew England, News
Hiker rescued from mountain with 90-mph winds, bitter cold atop Mount Washington
Officials say the hiker from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, didn’t have appropriate gear for the dangerous winter conditions.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine, News
Heavy wet snow, rain falls on western Maine as promised
The overnight storm left lots of heavy, wet snow around Lewiston and Auburn and even more in some stretches of Oxford and Franklin counties.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
‘Marty on the Mountain’: Longtime Mount Washington weatherman Marty Engstrom dies at age 86
It wasn’t so much the weather reports themselves that longtime viewers remember — it was the way Marty Engstrom read them.
Posted inNation / World, New England, News
Officials identify skier killed in Mount Washington avalanche
Nicholas Benedix, 32, of Campton, N.H., was buried under about 5 feet of snow in Raymond Cataract for about an hour Thursday afternoon before rescuers dug him out.
Posted inNation / World
Watch boiling water turn to snow on Mount Washington
Weather observers atop the Northeast’s highest peak say the temperature has hit a record negative 34 degrees. Adam Gill of the Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire says the previous record of negative 31 degrees was set in 1933. (Dec. 28)
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Hikers trigger Mount Washington avalanche
PINKHAM NOTCH, N.H. — Two climbers triggered an avalanche in Mount Washington’s Tuckerman Ravine, prompting a search and rescue operation in an area notorious for its deadly avalanches, forest officials said Monday. White Mountain National Forest authorities said the hikers, who both suffered minor injuries, were climbing in an area known as “The Chute” on Sunday […]
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Video: It’s still extreme ski season on Mount Washington
MOUNT WASHINGTON, N.H. — On a postcard spring Saturday in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, a boisterous band of pilgrims some 2,000 strong is preparing for their own brand of funky and fearless worship. Alone and in groups, they leave Pinkham Notch and trek 3.1 miles up a narrow, mud- and snow-covered trail toward Tuckerman Ravine, […]