Mount Washington is a contender for the world's fastest recorded wind speed. On "calm" summer days, instruments on Mount Washington's summit record wind speeds of 40 mph (65 km/h). But when storms ...

Weather Observers Mike Dorfman and Tom Padham played atop New Hampshire's Mount Washington amid an ... It holds the US record for fastest wind gust at 231 mph. On this day, the winds reached ...

Mount Washington Observatory staffers said their crew spotted a snow whirl, or snow devil on the Mount Washington Auto Road on Wednesday.

Mount Washington Observatory forecaster Alexandra Branton climbs the instrument tower to mount a wind sensor. We take great pride in New Hampshire to be the home of Mount Washington, which is ...

On the downbound summit crew's trip along the Mount Washington Auto Road today, they captured an image of a long,... Similar to a dust devil, a snow devil is created by wind shear - winds blowing ...

Two Massachusetts hikers were rescued in a multi-hour overnight operation after becoming stuck in whiteout conditions in the upper reaches of Mount Washington ... erased by wind and snow.

Jay Broccolo, Director of Weather Operations, checks Mount Washington Observatory's wind vane on the instrument tower. MWOBS’s team of scientists and meteorologists are renowned for enduring ...