After the heavy snow this week, Kansas City may think it has the world's worst weather. In reality, this claim is held by the weather observatory at the top of Mount Washington in Northern New Hampshire. This peak is only 6,288 feet tall (as compared to many peaks over 14,000 feet tall in the Rocky Mountains) but lies at the convergence of several predominant weather storm tracks. The extreme weather conditions result in a bare mountain top, well above the tree line.  The vertical rise of the