The Snows of Mount Washington Climate and environmental change
in the U.S. northeast corridor March 2, 2012 The following is
part five in a series on the National Science Foundation's
Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability (SEES)
investment. Visit parts one, two, three, four, six, seven, eight
and nine in this series. Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain
19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in
Africa. Close to the western summit there is the dried and
frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the
leopard was seeking at that altitude. ---Ernest Hemingway, The
Snows of Kilimanjaro It's March, but a big snow has fallen in
the U.S. Northeast for perhaps the first time this winter.
What's going on in traditional New England "snow towns" like
Boston, Burlington and Brattleboro--and atop New Hampshire's
famed Mount Washington, which is often snow-covered through
July? Is this seemingly snowless winter a blip on the radar
screen, or a harbinger of things to come? What