Inversion Morning!

It was exciting to take a look at some of the observations this morning, as there was quite a temperature inversion in place. Without too much exciting weather to talk about in New England today, this was neat to take a look at. 

Take a look at this morning's observations for New Hampshire:

(NWS Gray)

You'll notice that Mt. Washington's summit was the warmest location in NH, with a temperature of 34 °F. Portsmouth, which is located on the Atlantic Ocean, was 6 °F colder than the summit of the Northeast's tallest mountain! I also found this temperature profile on the Mt. Washington Auto Road quite neat:

(Mt. Washington Observatory)

At an elevation of 1600', the temperature was 29.4 °F, and if you hiked up to 4000', the temperature would have jumped over 20 °F! Here's a beautiful sounding from the morning for Northern New Hampshire.

(Tropical Tidbits)

Notice how the red temperature line moves sharply to the right near the surface of the Earth, meaning that the temperature is warming quickly as elevation increases.

Because it was so clear and sunny last night, we had lots of radiational cooling from near the surface of the Earth, meaning that Earth's surface could emit heat more readily than higher locations. As a result, we had this inversion, which made for some neat weather this morning!