by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:33 AM 8:19 PM 14 hours and 46 minutes Summer is the wettest season in northern New England thanks to the higher humidity available to thunderstorms. On this date in 1913 St. Johnsbury recorded its wettest 24 hours of the 20th century, as thunderstorms with...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:25 AM 8:28 PM 15 hours and 3 minutes On this date in 1977 records and ice cream were melting rapidly. Both Burlington and St. Johnsbury topped out at 99 degrees, while Montpelier set its July record of 97 degrees. The heat was spread from one corner of the state to...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:37 AM 8:16 PM 14 hours and 39 minutes Hot weather in July, of course that’s no surprise. July averages the greatest number of days with 90 or above – a total of five at most locations in the valleys – not exactly staggering. That’s why heat waves perhaps...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:29 AM 8:24 PM 14 hours and 55 minutes Searching back through the records books to 1830, tremendous rains from the 24th through the 26th produced one of Vermont’s most dramatic flood events. Zadock Thompson’s records from that time show 3.85 inches of rain on the...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:26 AM 8:27 PM 15 hours and 1 minutes The first of two tornadoes or severe storms let loose on the town of Enosburg Falls, Vermont on this date in 1907. Although information learned about tornadoes in the past few decades could give us better insight, we can simply...
