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Jennifer Hanseler described the sights from the top of the gondola: “It’s high enough elevation to get a really close up view. On a clear day you can see other peaks. Baker to the north, Adams and St. Helens to the south.”

And that’s why a new report by a leading climate research group calls the North Adams, Mass., station “the most extreme case” of what’s wrong with NOAA’s precipitation data and its disregard for climate change.

The North Adams estimates are based on precipitation records that go back to 1816, which the new report says makes them obsolete and inaccurate because they incorporate 200-year-old data and do not account for the current and future effects of climate change.

Pearl began his journalism career at the North Adams Transcript and The Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield.

And at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, Mass., EJ Hill, 37, has built an operational roller coaster, its rails painted cotton candy pink.