Send us your question
Dixville Notch, NH - I'm a long time listener with a question for Mark Breen: Is there anything cyclic or trend-like that would explain the excessively rainy and cool June and July that we are experiencing this year as well as last year? Is this going to be the wave of the future up here due to global warming, along with the unusually pleasant Sept. and Oct. we've had the last few years? Is the
timing of the seasons shifting?
Mark Breen responds: Excellent question.
Monthly, even yearly weather patterns, especially local weather patterns, are not directly connected to climate. Because climate is the “average” weather conditions for a period of at least 30 years (a subjective standard agreed to by climatologists), it is supposed to be made up of all the weather scenarios – including the extremes.
Episodes of cool, wet summers have taken place in the past few decades, including the mid 1980s, and again in the early 1990’s. But hot, dry summers have had their say as well, such as the late 1980s, and the mid 1990s. There is no discernible cycle in these episodes.
Read Mark's full response here (scroll down to find the Question of the Week). |
 |
|
|
Visit our newest exhibit -- Sound Waves: Many Shapes of Music -- and make a joyful noise when you try your hand at the "Music Machine."
|
| Scorpio hangs low on the southern horizon this month, while the Summer Triangle frames a section of the Milky Way ... find out which constellations will be coming into view in Vermont's only public planetarium, or check Mark Breen's Skywatch Almanac.
| |
| 
| Take a look at Chris Bouchard's weather photos in our Eye on the Sky flickr gallery ... and add your images.
|
|
Summer Season:
Open Monday - Saturday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Winter hours (November - March): closed Mondays
Planetarium Presentations (50 minutes):
Summer schedule - July & August
Monday - Friday, 11:00 AM and 1:30 PM
Saturday & Sunday, 1:30 PM
Admissions | Directions
|
|
