Unless you have a difficult time driving in gusty winds, you should be fine. Make sure you've got plenty of gas and bring a winter kit with you should the car battery die in the cold. That should include water, food that's easy to digest but provides a decent calorie load, and plenty of warm clothing

Good .. government has no authority overseeing private businesses

Not stealing ( taxing ) from people is a good thing since its private wealth that grows the economy

Look, I'm perfectly content with letting everyone do what they please, that's what makes the state great. My concern is 1) this airmass is extremely unusual, 2) most people have never experienced chills like what we expect in the Whites, & 3) we've already had fatalities in the Whites from people (sadly all from MA) who come to enjoy the Whites, are massively underequipped, and don't bother to get good forecasts. If I can help save a few lives with this info, I've done my job.

Real talk: I got something planned in Portsmouth tonight, goes from like 8 to midnight. At this point should I just cancel? It’s indoors but I’m low key worried about the drive

Are you a moron? What an insult to everyone whose stay-at-home mothers used to watch neighborhood kids, or the moms themselves. You're seriously messed up in the head if that makes someone a child abuser in your mind.

Why does Alaska hate Texas?

>I’m embarrassed that we have to talk about the cold weather in New Hampshire!

We don’t need to.

People from MA have infiltrated the state and the subreddit and MUST tell everyone else how to live their lives at every chance they get.

Keep bringing the downvotes and proving my point.

This pellet stoves are anemic and can barely keep up then people be like

"Why are my pipes frozen "

When these same people only run the pellet stove not caring how cold their basement gets

Cold is one thing but we have not seen these temps in decades. It is one thing to be cold and another where frostbite can set in in less than 5 min.

There are lot's of picture if the staircase on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/253311342/madame-sherris-forest/

A few old ones of people on the the stairs, and under the arches. Crazy to think about now that part of it has fallen.

That is very interesting. I have to say one thing that has always blown my mind with meteorology is how much air doesn't like to mix and can have huge velocity gradients that I wouldn't expect from fluids. How a tornado holds itself together is just magic to me.

Currently -86, gusts to 106MPH

Are you okay with child abuse?

🤣…I’m dying 🤣🤣

I think it relates to the amount of heat they can produce:

Pellet stoves: Up to 90,000 BTU/hr

Natural gas-fired furnaces: Up to 140,000 BTU/hr

Oil-fired furnaces: Up to 160,000 BTU/hr

Richard Hammond went up there when it was 85mph winds in the winter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-QZ5Om9_20

Hey I'm glad meteorologists can teach people new things! So not quite, a tropopause fold/depression occurs just behind a upper-level jet stream associated with a strong cyclone, in this case a piece of the tropospheric Polar Vortex that's been pinched off.

The reason why Bernoulli acceleration occurs at the fold is a difference in density: the bottom of the stratosphere directly above the tropopause gets increasingly warmer, drier, and therefore more stable than the airmass below it. So, that rapidly increasing stability creates the "flow squeeze" effect between the fold and the White Mountains, thus accelerating the winds.

Come off it.

This weekend has the potential for being the second coldest temperatures I've seen in 30 years of living in NH. There's no reason to pretend this isn't exceptionally cold.

And why are pellet stoves affected by cold? I understand mini-splits hav8ng an issue, but not pellet stoves.

This is really interesting. I had never heard of a tropopause fold before. I tried a brief search to figure out the mechanisms that cause it but is it just a strong high pressure system?

camera on the observatory is WILD right now

https://www.youtube.com/live/cycNkPxtXPY?feature=share

It IS insane even to those of us idiots who refuse to move to warmer climates who were born here.

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Yup. A few years ago they had to cancel something because they had too much snow. For an event that required (wait for it)...snow.