13" new with sustained winds of 100mph.
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08:11 PM Sun Oct 16, 2005 EDT		First TracksToday I marveled to my father via email about de-icing our weatherinstruments on the tower with our tool of choice – the mighty crowbar.He replied that his crowbar would make more of a splashing sound thesedays. While the rest of New Hampshire is still soggy, recovering fromfloods, we on Mt. Washington are iced in and have accumulated 13inches of snow as of 7 pm.
It's absolutely unreal. Had you asked me last week on one of ourrecord-breaking hot days in October to imagine the worst winterweather possible, I wouldn't have dreamt up the conditions we'veexperienced today. Yesterday, we predicted increased winds followingthe passage of a cold front. On cue, the winds shifted 180 degrees andour wind chart started dancing, a change from the low, clean line we'dseen all day. Our peak gust was 127 mph at 5:20 am this morning, andwe had sustained winds of 90-100 mph for the majority of the day!
It's tough to imagine what those conditions really mean to us. Thebuilding is constantly whistling and rumbling. The doors are suckedshut because of the difference in pressure between outdoors andinside. We wear hockey helmets when de-icing the instruments. Whathasn't been de-iced is growing 3 ft of rime, stretching its wayupwind. Ice pellets scour every piece of exposed flesh and it's easyto get lost when trying to change the precipitation can a mere 50yards from the front door. But it's no hardship. Maybe the lowpressure has made us loopy, but this is the weather we live for.

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