April 11, 2026

6:14 AM 7:30 PM 13 hours and 16 minutes Although the character of spring includes damp ground and mud season, it is the spring when forest fire danger is at its annual maximum here in northern New England, northern New York, and southern Quebec. Dead grass and...

April 16, 2026

6:05 AM 7:36 PM 13 hours and 31 minutes On this date in 1992, a second snow storm followed a record cold spell to top off the winter season, as it were. 4 to 8 inches of snow fell throughout the region, but in the higher terrain in the north, snow cover had not...

April 23, 2026

5:54 AM 7:44 PM 13 hours and 50 minutes On this day in 1996, it was raining. Of course that isn’t exciting in and of itself, but the month of April, 21 years ago, was the wettest ever on a state-wide basis. A cold, wet backwards spring featured some 6 to 9...

April 29, 2026

5:44 AM 7:52 PM 14 hours and 8 minutes On this day in 1874, it was snowing again in northern New England. The final installment of snow in a very snowy month brought another 10 inches of snow to Woodstock, VT, raising the snow on the ground to over 30 inches. 12...

April 30, 2026

5:43 AM 7:53 PM 14 hours and 10 minutes It is not unusual to see flooding this time of year as soggy ground and remaining snow in the mountains adds to the spring rain. However, fourteen years ago, in 2011, rapid snowmelt, combined with excessive fall and spring...