Sunrise: 6:44 AM
Sunset: 6:37 PM
Length of the day:
11 hours and 53 minutes
It was on this date in 1836 that snow was noted on the tops of the mountains of extreme southern Vermont. The temperature in the valley at Bennington registered 34, while an observer in Williamstown, MA, just two miles south of Vermont, saw all the surrounding mountains whitened. Two more early snowfalls came in October – part of the coldest year of the 19th century.