Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by nick123567 1229 days ago
Gotta love the meteorologist who went outside to check it out:

Venturing outside onto the mountain to track the system Friday, Francis Tarasiewicz, a staff meteorologist at the Mount Washington Observatory, encountered wind that sounded like a roaring freight train. “There were pieces of ice flying around, lots of ducking and dodging,” he said. “I had a tiny, millimeter-wide area of skin exposure, and it felt like a bee sting.”

His Twitter is fairly entertaining too with some videos of the onsite meteorologists playing around in the wind on a different day.

2 comments

For more meteorologists messing around in the wind on Mt Washington, here's the classic "Breakfast of Champions" of a guy trying to serve breakfast at the summit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J37u_usbJHc

This is brilliant comedy, thank you so much for sharing!