GLOBAL WARMING, WHAT?
It’s been a wacky and weird stretch of warm weather this first February vacation week, where temperatures skyrocketed Wednesday to record or near-record levels both here in the lower elevations of the Mount Washington Valley and high up on 6,288-foot Mount Washington.
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