The wind chill was minus-108 degrees at the summit of the New Hampshire mountain on Friday, according to the National Weather Service.
“Mind-blowing observations from Mount Washington,”Brandon Orr, a meteorologist with WPLG in Miami.
Others on social media noted grappled with the extreme weather they were witnessing at Mount Washington.As weather experts pointed out, Mount Washington found itself in the stratosphere Friday night as the result of a lobe of the polar vortex that barreled south. The atmosphere becomes more compressed as it cools, meaning that the boundary dividing its two lowest layers, the troposphere and the stratosphere, known as the tropopause, will sink in altitude.
“This layer is typically 4-12 miles up, but tonight it will be less than a mile!” he tweeted on Friday alongside a graphic projecting how far the stratosphere would dip. NERD ALERT...the atmospheric heights will be SO LOW tonight, anyone living above 4,000 ft or so will be in a different atmospheric layer entirely, the stratosphere! This layer is typically 4-12 miles up, but tonight it will be less than a mile!
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