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It’s Not Warm on Mt. Rainier

I wanted to check if I could squeeze another weekend of camping in this year, so I went to weather.com [1] and typed in Mt. Rainier. It looked great: 23 Celsius on Saturday (73 Fahrenheit).

Mt. Rainier Weather [2]

Mt. Rainier Weather

That did seem a bit odd, though, considering the temperature is hovering between 10 C (50 F) and 17 C (63 F) in Seattle. It turns out, that weather is for Mt. Rainier, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, DC. In Mt. Rainier National Park, WA, it’s snowing:

Mt. Rainier National Park Weather [3]

Mt. Rainier National Park Weather

Oops.

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