I’m writing this from the place with the worst weather in the world, Mt Washington. This is the highest point in the Northeast and holds the land speed wind record of some 280 miles per hour. This picture is of the trail leading to the top. The vegetation, mostly shrubs, grasses, and lichens, are only found on a few mountaintops in the lower 48 and hundreds of miles north in the arctic tundra. The weather today is cloudy, windy, and in the lower 50s. The average summer high is 51 and and average winter high is 15.