by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:21 AM 4:40 PM 9 hours and 19 minutes More than two centuries ago on this date, in 1817, snow with thunder fell, the static electricity creating a most unusual effect. In Williamstown, VT St. Elmo’s fire (a glowing discharge of static electricity) was seen...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:26 AM 4:23 PM 8 hours and 57 minutes On this date in 1990, mild weather was in the process of delivering one of the mildest January’s on record, following the coldest winter month on Vermont records, that of December 1989. Vernon had daily high temperatures above...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:26 AM 4:22 PM 8 hours and 56 minutes The coldest January of the modern era in most of northern New England didn’t waste any time getting started on this date in 1970. Following the tremendous post-Christmas storm, arctic air was almost without relent much of...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:26 AM 4:26 PM 9 hours and 0 minutes One of the coldest winters of the 19th century was that of 1834-35. On this date the severest of the cold that winter sent temperatures well below zero, freezing mercury thermometers at -40, such as those at Montpelier and White...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:21 AM 4:41 PM 9 hours and 20 minutes The famous “snow-eating” thaw of 1996 was underway on this date. Heavy snowfall from December into early January brought snow depths of 18 to 30 inches throughout the region. But a series of storms passing to the west brought...
