Deck cam items...?

[Bill O]

Well, todays obs comments have given us somewhat of an answer to the silver/grey can mystery...."Visitors to the summit have seen a new experiment set up on the obs deck used to measure the effects of icing."

What a great time of year to measure icing!

[Wantabe]

Does seem a bit late in the season....my guess is they won't see much, but then again I'm just a wantabe

[Steve M]

I guess it would depend on the details of the experiment. They may not need heavy icing for what they need.

[Steve M]

Just saw more info on the "cans", posted in the obs comments. "Lastly, we've been getting a lot of questions about the 'contraption' on the observation deck. It's simply an experiment from an engineering firm to test real icing load on some components of building design. The Observatory runs similar tests regularly, but few are this noticable!"

[Mike D]

While it seems silly to run an icing experiment in this first heat wave of the season, you can count on some rime ice coming before the end of the month.

[Wantabe]

Not sure they will get much rime, but I do like watching the shadows move around like a sundial.

[Bill O]

While it seems silly to run an icing experiment in this first heat wave of the season, you can count on some rime ice coming before the end of the month.

Care to put some odds on that?

[Steve M]

Lets make a game out of it. I'll say they will see rime ice on Wed or Thurs of this week.

[KD Talbot]

I say they will get some good riming tonight, not winter like conditions, but everything north of Winnepesaukee is in for a good frost with temps down in the teens. Happy mothers day.
KDT

[Bill O]

I say they will get some good riming tonight, not winter like conditions, but everything north of Winnepesaukee is in for a good frost with temps down in the teens. Happy mothers day.
KDT

Good valley frost conditions are often opposite of good riming conditions. Late spring frost is associated with clear, calm nights. Mount Washington needs some clouds tonight, they are already well below freezing.