Or to fly a kite. It sure soundly like a mountain to avoid. What is the factors that lead to Mt. Washington to be more cold and windy than the average mountain in New England?
I don’t know, I just know they have a weather station there, and climbers(unwise ones) die there often enough.
I think “Sam Adams 76” (I think on this thread) knows the area...
What is the factors that lead to Mt. Washington to be more cold and windy than the average mountain in New England?
Nothing except it is the highest peak in New England. Has a road to the top and a longtime weather station. If it was on top of Mount Reagan, then that would be the refence point.
As per Wiki:
The mountain is named for Henry Clay, 19th-century senator and U.S. Secretary of State from Kentucky, known as “The Great Compromiser”. In 2003, the New Hampshire state legislature, participating in a Reagan Legacy project, made it state law that Mt. Clay “shall hereafter be called and known as Mount Reagan,” after President Ronald Reagan. The legal force of this is limited to actions by the state of New Hampshire. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN) voted in May 2010 not to change the name of the mountain. Maps used in connection with foot travel in the Presidentials are typically published by the U.S. Geological Survey (which adheres by law to BGN’s naming), and by the Appalachian Mountain Club and two New England companies, all three of whom as of 2010 use “Clay” and make no mention of “Reagan”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Clay
I just found this referrence by accident.
It sticks up far higher than all the rest. Air coming out of the Northwest from Hudson Bay in Canada has nothing but flats and low hills to pass over for a thousand or more miles.
They say you can smell the seal and polar bear poop from up there!
The geography funnels the winds through that area.
Mt Washington is the highest peak in the northeast.
It is the second highest east of the Rockies after Mt Mansfield in NC.
So, the predominant winds blow out of the west or northwest. There is nothing as high from Montana for 2500 miles.