Winter ski season is on the horizon, but New Hampshire is still deep in drought, putting some snowmakers at the state’s mountain resorts on edge.  With evolving technology and strategic snowmaking, the snowmakers said they expect to keep skiers on the trails this winter despite current water shortages. But like warming winters, recurring late-summer droughts […]

New Hampshire is sinking deeper into drought as fall sets in, despite the few inches of much-needed rain that fell across much of the state in late September.  “It wasn’t enough to account for the deficit between the amount of rain we typically expect by this point in the year and what we’ve actually received,” […]

Over the course of a summer as hot and dry as this one, without intervention, New Hampshire’s apple crop might drop right off their branches before eager apple pickers could reach them. But as summer turns to fall and drought conditions wear on across much of the state, New Hampshire farmers aren’t letting their crops […]

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Although nine in 10 Americans believe it’s important to be prepared for the worst in the event of a natural disaster — less than half actually have a preparedness plan in place, according to a new study. In the survey of 2,000 American adults, 90% agreed it’s critical to be prepared for extreme weather, yet […]