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Snow on Mount Washington in June is not rare. This year, however, snow totals are the highest on record for the summer month and forecasters say more is on the way. On June 11, the Mount Washington Observatory announced 8.4 inches of snow for the month, a new record for the highest peak in the Northeast. The observatory began keeping track of snow totals beginning in 1932. Weather experts predict even more snow in the days ahead. ... Statistically speaking, our last snowfall of the season typically occurs in early to mid-June most years,” the observatory wrote in a Twitter...

The Arctic air that descended on the Northeast on Saturday brought dangerously cold sub-zero temperatures and wind chills to the region, including a record-setting wind chill of –108°F (–78°C) on the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire. Temperatures got so low that authorities in Massachusetts took the unusual step of keeping the South Station transit hub open overnight so homeless people had a safe place to sleep. Several cities in the Northeast set or tied record low temperatures for the date, while the high winds brought down a tree branch on a car in western Massachusetts killing an infant....

A powerful arctic blast swept into the U.S. Northeast on Friday, threatening to push temperatures to record lows in many spots, including New Hampshire’s Mount Washington, where the wind chill could drop to -110 degrees Fahrenheit ... ... Boston and Worcester, the two largest cities in New England, were among the school districts to close on Friday as administrators worried about the risk of hypothermia and frostbite as children waited for buses or walked to school. The bitter cold in the forecast forced a rare closing of a floating museum that presents a daily re-enactment of the 1773 Boston Tea...

CONWAY, New Hampshire — A hiker who was suffering from severe hypothermia on a New Hampshire trail near Mt. Washington died at a hospital hours after rescuers faced driving rain, blowing snow, and winds gusting to over 80 mph to reach him, conservation officers said. The hiker was rescued from Gulfside Trail on Saturday night. Xi Chen, 53, of Andover, Massachusetts, was overcome by severe weather conditions. Fish and Game Department officers said they heard from his wife, who said she received a text from Chen saying he was cold and wet and couldn't continue on. “He further wrote that...

A precautionary boil water advisory has been issued for nearly 900 households in parts of Pittsburgh’s West End neighborhoods after a water main broke on Mount Washington Saturday afternoon. The boil water and flush advisory applies to portions of Ridgemont, Westwood and Elliott, according to the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority. Many residents in the area had no water service or experienced low water pressure due to the break, which occurred around 3:30 p.m. along a 16-inch water main on Virginia Avenue at Kearsarge Street, the PWSA said. PWSA officials said the break was isolated and normal water service was...

Mt. Washington New Hampshire Observatory report: 7:08 PM EST Temp -28.5°F Wind West @61 MPH Gusts of 63 MPH Wind Chill-72°F Observer's Comments: 07:08 PM Wed Jan 14, 2004 EST Our phones have been ringing all day today with inquiries of our temperatures. Yes it is cold up here, even by our standards. Over the past twenty four hours, the lowest wind chill was 102 degrees below zero... but I can tell you, it felt more like 500 below to me! Once again we have recorded a new record low today of 45 degrees below zero. Now our focus shifts...

<p>It took 6 sets of batteries and three drivers, but a Segway scooter made it to the top of New England's tallest peak.</p> <p>The scooter climbed Mouut Washignton's auto road in about two and one half hours Wednesday.</p> <p>The standup scooter, invented by Manchester's Dean Kamen and manufactured in Beford, was the first Segway to make it to the top of the 6,288 foot mountain in 7.6 miles.</p>

<p>James Renwick Manship, who has kept busy impersonating George Washington at patriotic rallies around America, was delighted to read that the New Hampshire legislature has voted to rename a mountain after former President Ronald Reagan.</p> <p>Mr. Manship, in fact, considers Mr. Reagan "the most important man in the world in the past century."</p>

A fire on the summit of Mount Washington yesterday knocked out all electricity on the mountain, hindering emergency communications in the North Country and forcing the first evacuation of the Mount Washington Observatory since it opened in 1932. Jeff DeRosa, an intern at the observatory, said he discovered the fire at about 3 p.m. while checking the generator room. DeRosa said he was trying to figure out the source of the smoke when he walked outside and saw flames were shooting from the building, which houses two generators. DeRosa said he and another man tried putting out the fire using...