![]() In fact, it helps quite a bit to make sure things stay nice and windy. We see being the tallest, most prominent peak in the Northeast does not hurt. Sort of the weather, the extremes, the frequency, the extremes. I'll try and keep the answers very brief. But he was doing it out over the oceans.īrian, why is the weather so bad on top of Mount Washington? And if I could also ask, is it really worse than, you know, on the top of Mount Denali in Alaska, which is way further north and three times taller? He was taking weather observations and working a very bizarre shift, just like I would come to do a decade later. So your dad was in shipping, so you have to be a weather geek to to work in that field, right? And you wonder how is this possible? How does this come together and happen? So it's hard not to be curious about it. Sort of like Nicole said, it's it's something that's just so much bigger than You that that you can't you can't hide from the outdoors. And I don't just sort of shared this this sort of interest and passion for that. I mean, my dad was works in shipping and he had a degree in oceanography and meteorology. But, yeah, you know, it's sort of interesting connection. Oh, very similar, eerily similar story of being, you know, glued to the the window pane, but also being kind of scared of the thunder and lightning and all that sort of stuff. Wow, Brian, how about you? How did you get started in this business? So whether it was one way for me to be able to really engulf myself in that. And so for me, it's not only extreme weather, but it's also things such as volcanoes or earthquakes, plate tectonics, just those crazy extreme power behind Earth that really does fascinate me. Yeah, I feel like a lot of people look at the extremes and they almost get afraid of it, but for me it was a fascination with how powerful the earth can be. I mean, what is it, Nicole, that sort of pulled you as a little girl to that window pane to watch the thunderstorms and made you excited enough to want to study it? What is it about extreme weather that just, you know, again, pulls you in? So coming to the top of Mount Washington, where it's called Home with the World's Worst Weather was a very good fit for me. And definitely extreme weather is what I'm interested in. And yeah, I went to college for it and just furthered my excitement for it. So it's always been just a passion of mine, even as a young kid. So I've always been very interested in what was going on outside with the weather, some of my earliest memories were me glued to a window, watching thunderstorms and watching severe weather. Nicole, what draws you to this work and your own fascination with the weather? So one way or another, that's a good reason why it's part of the small talk that we all make every day. ![]() It's connected to every part of our life and and there's no hiding from it. And, you know, more broadly, we just we can't escape it. Wait a minute, and the weather will change - butchering that Mark Twain quote there. We just have so much of it, it changes all the time. Well, here in New England, there's a good reason for that. ![]() Why are so many people just captivated by the weather? And also with us, Nicole Tallman, weather observer, an education specialist at the Mount Washington Observatory. We're talking with Brian Fitzgerald, director of science and education at the Mt. What questions do you have about the observatory itself and the information it's gathered for almost 90 years. And today, on The Exchange, we travel to the Mount Washington Observatory to find out how the information it tracks can explain both the daily weather and broader climate change. Now, many decades later, scientists, they're still at it. A group of Granite Staters pulled together just enough funding so that a crew of four could live atop the mountain for the purpose of collecting weather data. In the midst of the Great Depression, New England's best known weather observatory was founded on the top of Mount Washington in 1932. This transcript is machine-generated and will contain errors.įrom New Hampshire Public Radio, I'm Laura Knoy, and this is The Exchange.
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