While tulips might be blooming and leaves might be appearing on trees in your yard, it’s a very different story atop New England’s highest peak.
The summit of Mount Washington has had a wintry start to the month of May. And while cold conditions are nothing new on the summit, this wintry start to May has been unusual even by Mount Washington standards.
In a social media post on Sunday evening, officials with the Mount Washington Observatory posted a snowy photo from the mountain’s summit and said they recorded 4.7 inches of snow during the first three days of May.
That even led to snowdrifts building back up along the side of the observatory’s Yankee Building.
That snow already puts this month’s snowfall on the mountain to more than a third of the way toward May’s total monthly average for Mount Washington, which is 12.9 inches.
According to the observatory’s Higher Summits Forecast, more snow was expected on the mountain Monday.
