Check out this month’s issue of National Geographic (actually February 2009, but it’s out now) for a feature article on New Hampshire’s Mount Washington!
The piece is called “Backyard Arctic”-and the focus is on the crazy weather conditions atop the Northeast’s highest peak. As the article states, 6,288 feet is a mere “hill” when compared to the Rocky Mountains out west. However, the location of Mt. Washington in the Presidential range on the east coast at the juncture of a couple of jet streams and arctic air imported from Canada make 94.9 WHOM’s transmitter site truly the “Home of The World’s Worst Weather”. The article is good-and the photos-in typical National Geographic tradition-are spectacular!
The highest recorded wind speed on earth (231mph) was clocked at the summit. Unbelievable!
It is indeed a harsh environment to operate ANYTHING, let alone a radio station, but the antenna height affords WHOM the largest geographic coverage of any FM in North America.
I enjoy traveling to the top---but mostly in the summertime—where temps can still be freezing. For the uninitiated, below is a short film clip of the incredible conditions on the summit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im2t_6qpf9c&NR=1
Makes your backyard seems a little less “arctic”, no?
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Stay warm!
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