How do you measure the cold on Mount Washington? 30º below zero, or cold enough to freeze spaghetti in mid-air

WKatcher@masslive.com ^ | Jan. 11, 2022 | Will Katcher

[Daffynition]

Temperatures across New England dipped below zero Tuesday, but on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, a different, more anecdotal metric described the treacherous weather: the air was cold enough to freeze a dish of spaghetti, fork included, in mid-air.

Like a futuristic sculpture memorializing morning-after leftovers, the plate of pasta stood suspended in its place, its fork defying gravity as it hovered several inches off the snowy ground.

[Bob434]

LOL 😆 “waytah waytah, excuse me” 😆

[Bob434]

My father used to collect and help keep ice back in the day. They kept it covered in sawdust in the summer months I think I remember him saying. Ice a big deal back then. He also told how they used to also have to carry 5 gallon pails,of water to the one room school house (which is still standing, but recently got sold to a private owner I beleive, I hope,he preserves it),and how they would have to,do,this each morning before school started. Folks up the street from him got a TV, and the neighborhood, kids woild all gather in the home to watch their favorite shows

Times sure have changed

[Bob434]

Speed is a lack of stop (thanks, I’m here all week lol)

[Daffynition]

Very early,this morning, at first light, off the deck.....you could see that frozen spaghetti on the Summit [dead center].... especially, if you squint your eyes. :)

[Daffynition]

VERY funny.

Those observatory crew members must go nutz with boredom....hence the hilarious video.

THX

[Daffynition]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEPt57ECWsY

[Daffynition]

Heh. I know, it’s a drag.

[Bob434]

You mean the plate behind the squirrel?

[StAnDeliver]

"Last summer, Travis Pastrana, set a new record of 5 minutes 28.67 seconds at the 2021 Mt. Washington Hillclimb in an 850 Horsepower Subaru built by Vermont Sports Car, in Milton, VT."

Available on Youtube and worth anyone's time. At 3:50, right after switching off the pavement onto the dirt & gravel, Pastrana briefly overcorrects out of a slight right-hand slide after taking a right corner, and it appears the left wheels contact the boulders off the left side of the road, literally just a foot away from dropping off into the void. Then seconds later, a bird hits the right corner windshield.

[Taxman]

Well, we certainly knew them, didn’t we?

[Taxman]

PS

Knew them and lived them!

[Daffynition]

No, the squirrel on the plate.

Keeps it from eating all the bird suet.

[Daffynition]

[Daffynition]

https://images42.fotki.com/v886/photos/9/127099/8284582/1fdtdYBtyfclfb1zBhj7SEzyo1_500-vi.jpg

[Bob434]

Lol. We have a ton of squirrels this year. Must have been a banner summer for them

[Taxman]

You are SO right!

[Daffynition]

Food must have been plentiful

[Daffynition]

[Taxman]

Cause Flori-Duh is warmer in the winter than VT!

[Dead Corpse]

I’ve done the “cup of boiling water into the air turns to snow” thing here in MN on more than one occasion.