Sunrise: 5:49 AM
Sunset: 8:01 PM
Length of the day:
14 hours and 12 minutes
On this date in 1949 the hottest summer in northern New England was experiencing the climax of a 5 day heat-wave. Temperatures were in the mid and upper 90s, the hottest being 99 degrees in Cornwall in the Champlain Valley. 1949 remains the only summer in Burlington’s weather records during which each summer month averaged warmer than 70°.