Not ancient warlocks making weather but modern scientists just making a record of it, unintentionally posed a good Halloween picture on the top of Mount Washington, with the aid of a cat that doesn’t like the wind. The photograph has nothing of the mellowness of autumn about it–quite naturally, since it was taken during the winter, when Polar Year studies were being conducted on what is perhaps the windiest mountaintop in eastern North American.
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