MOUNT WASHINGTON, N.H. - Hurricane-force wind gusts will peak as high
as 140 mph. Temperatures will plunge to life-threatening values, with
the wind chill dropping to 100 degrees below zero.
Those are some of the warnings and impacts for Mount Washington in New Hampshire, the highest peak in the northeastern U.S. at 6,288 feet in elevation.
The coldest temperature recorded on Mt. Washington was -47 degrees in
1934, but given current weather conditions, the record might soon be
broken.
"I think we'll get close to it, and perhaps even exceed it and go down
as low as 50 degrees below zero overnight, between midnight and 3
a.m.," said Francis Tarasiewicz, meteorologist at the Mt. Washington Observatory.
The National Weather Service in Portland/Gray, Maine, said an unusual phenomenon for its area of responsibility is possible Friday night as
the tropopause - the boundary between the troposphere, where our
weather occurs, and the stratosphere, the layer of the atmosphere
above the troposphere - could dip below the peak of Mount Washington.
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