The NY Times profiled the Mohonk Mountain House yesterday and it appears that this 19th-century resort, is home to National Weather Service’s cooperative station. For the last 112 years, the temperature and weather conditions have been diligently recorded,  in the same place, in the exact same way and only by 5 people since the stations first reading in Jan. 1 1896. Since the precise site of the station has never changed, nor has anything been built around it,  this is one of the most reliable and accurate locations to monitor the weather. And NT Times explains that the  “extremely limited number of observers greatly enhances the reliability, and therefore the value, of the data. Other weather stations have operated longer, but few match Mohonk’s consistency and reliability.

And the findings:

1) the average annual temperature has risen 2.7 degrees in 112 years.

2) 7 of the top10 warmest years have occurred since 1990.

3) Annual precipitation and annual snowfall have increased

4) The growing season has lengthened by 10 days.

You can read about the more amazing findings from the Mohonk Mountain House here.
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(Photo: New York Times)