New Hampshire is part of New England
Every New England region shares one system — the same maps, the same live radar, the same climate record. The summit of Mount Washington held the world record for a surface wind gust for sixty-two years — 231 mph, April 1934 — and still averages hurricane-force winds on more than a hundred days a year. Nothing else in the eastern United States is remotely like it. Below the notches the state is ordinary New England: the Merrimack Valley cities get the nor'easters, the Lakes Region gets the ice, and the North Country simply gets cold, with Pittsburg and Errol regularly the coldest reporting places south of Canada.