Mountain Top Weather and CLimate

[Scott]

It has been a while since I have been to the forum!  I hope everyone has been doing well.

Anyway, if anyone is interested, I updated my charts for climate statistics on various US mountains.  I was able to add a lot more new data I was able to dig up over the years (but am still trying to dig up more).  Unfortunately the site I put the data on has more ads than it used to, but the data is there and hopefully interesting.

https://www.summitpost.org/interesting-climate-statistics-for-us-mountain-summits/171585

It's isn't that big of a page, but as far as I know this is the only place where the climate data for all these mountain summits is gathered in one place.

If I missed any mountain summits where weather and climate data is available, please let me know.

Thanks!  

[Sunriver Snow Zone]

On 6/5/2024 at 11:00 PM, Scott said:

It has been a while since I have been to the forum!  I hope everyone has been doing well.

Anyway, if anyone is interested, I updated my charts for climate statistics on various US mountains.  I was able to add a lot more new data I was able to dig up over the years (but am still trying to dig up more).  Unfortunately the site I put the data on has more ads than it used to, but the data is there and hopefully interesting.

https://www.summitpost.org/interesting-climate-statistics-for-us-mountain-summits/171585

It's isn't that big of a page, but as far as I know this is the only place where the climate data for all these mountain summits is gathered in one place.

If I missed any mountain summits where weather and climate data is available, please let me know.

Thanks!  

Dude this is awesome! Thank you so much for putting in the effort to make this!

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For some reason, the record lows at Denali Pass are quite a bit "warmer" than the ones at the weather station at 19,000 feet as well (which recorded temperatures in the -70s on multiple occasions. 

I actually went on an expedition up Denali this may, carrying a portable thermometer up, at the Plateau below the summit ridge we set up a temporary camp following our late evening summit, at 19500' we recorded a temperature of -43 degrees overnight (+/- a few degrees, probably not a 100% accurate thermometer) which is the same as the record low may temperature observed at Denali Pass. Although we were in a cold spell, it was nothing historic by any means and this also occurred in late may. This probably confirms that Denali Pass has some warm bias for the low temps, I would assume that -43 is certainly not the record low in may for the summit of Denali, I find it likely that -50 has happened many times in the last century.

Photo from the camp, taken at 4:46 am at the peak of the cold.

[snow_wizard]

On 6/5/2024 at 11:00 PM, Scott said:

It has been a while since I have been to the forum!  I hope everyone has been doing well.

Anyway, if anyone is interested, I updated my charts for climate statistics on various US mountains.  I was able to add a lot more new data I was able to dig up over the years (but am still trying to dig up more).  Unfortunately the site I put the data on has more ads than it used to, but the data is there and hopefully interesting.

https://www.summitpost.org/interesting-climate-statistics-for-us-mountain-summits/171585

It's isn't that big of a page, but as far as I know this is the only place where the climate data for all these mountain summits is gathered in one place.

If I missed any mountain summits where weather and climate data is available, please let me know.

Thanks!  

Mount Rainier certainly scores very nicely for cold.