Sunrise: 6:17 AM
Sunset: 5:46 PM
Length of the day:
11 hours and 29 minutes
The second heavy snowfall in a week dumped 10 to 20 inches of snow through northern New England on this date in 1971, part of the snowiest winter of the 20th century. Snow depths on the ground reached 53 inches in Rochester, 55 inches in Readsboro, and 70 inches in Montpelier, and 88 inches on the Orange Heights.