If you are interested in observing the weather, you will enjoy this recent article from the Washington Post‘s Capital Weather Gang on what it is like to observe the weather on top of Mt. Washington, the tallest mountain in the northeast US.  The observatory there holds the record for the strongest wind ever recorded on earth: 231 miles per hour!  You can read it here.

Source: wwoods, Commons Wikimedia
Source: wwoods, Commons Wikimedia