Mount Cabot is a mountain located in Coos County, in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. The mountain is the highest peak of the Pilot Range of the White Mountains. Cabot is flanked to the northeast by The Bulge, and to the south of Bunnell Notch by Terrace Mountain. Mount Cabot was named in honor of the Italian explorer Sebastian Cabot.[2]
Cabot is drained by various brooks on the west side into the Israel River and on the east into the West Branch of the Upper Ammonoosuc River, and thence into the Connecticut River and Long Island Sound.
Cabot is one of the Appalachian Mountain Club's "four-thousand footers", the northernmost in New Hampshire. It is also on the New England Fifty Finest list of the most topographically prominent peaks. The valley of the Israel River separates the Pilot Range from the rest of the White Mountains; Mt. Cabot's relative isolation gives it the fifth-highest topographic prominence in New Hampshire, and the fourteenth-highest in New England.
Climate
| Climate data for Mount Cabot 44.5064 N, 71.4167 W, Elevation: 3,763 ft (1,147 m) (1991–2020 normals) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °F (°C) | 19.6 (−6.9) |
22.1 (−5.5) |
28.7 (−1.8) |
42.5 (5.8) |
55.5 (13.1) |
63.7 (17.6) |
68.0 (20.0) |
67.1 (19.5) |
60.5 (15.8) |
48.0 (8.9) |
35.5 (1.9) |
25.2 (−3.8) |
44.7 (7.1) |
| Daily mean °F (°C) | 11.8 (−11.2) |
13.6 (−10.2) |
19.9 (−6.7) |
33.0 (0.6) |
45.7 (7.6) |
54.5 (12.5) |
59.2 (15.1) |
58.3 (14.6) |
51.8 (11.0) |
40.0 (4.4) |
28.8 (−1.8) |
18.5 (−7.5) |
36.3 (2.4) |
| Mean daily minimum °F (°C) | 4.0 (−15.6) |
5.0 (−15.0) |
11.2 (−11.6) |
23.4 (−4.8) |
35.9 (2.2) |
45.3 (7.4) |
50.4 (10.2) |
49.5 (9.7) |
43.2 (6.2) |
32.1 (0.1) |
22.2 (−5.4) |
11.9 (−11.2) |
27.8 (−2.3) |
| Average precipitation inches (mm) | 5.48 (139) |
4.39 (112) |
5.59 (142) |
5.09 (129) |
6.41 (163) |
5.99 (152) |
7.29 (185) |
5.23 (133) |
5.49 (139) |
7.17 (182) |
6.16 (156) |
6.28 (160) |
70.57 (1,792) |
| Source: PRISM Climate Group[3] | |||||||||||||
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Mount Cabot, New Hampshire". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2013-01-30.
- ^ Smith, Steven D., and Mike Dickerman. The 4000 Footers of the White Mountains. Bondcliff Books, 2015.
- ^ "PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University". PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University. Retrieved October 22, 2023.
To find the table data on the PRISM website, start by clicking Coordinates (under Location); copy Latitude and Longitude figures from top of table; click Zoom to location; click Precipitation, Minimum temp, Mean temp, Maximum temp; click 30-year normals, 1991-2020; click 800m; click Retrieve Time Series button.
External links
- "Mount Cabot". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- "Hiking Mount Cabot". Appalachian Mountain Club.
- "Mount Cabot". SummitPost.org.