March 13, 2026

7:06 AM 6:54 PM 11 hours and 48 minutes Heavy, wet snow and strong winds made a mess of things on this date in 1962. After 5 inches of snow, strong south winds gusting to 81 mph in Bennington changed snow to rain, and knocked down trees and power lines. Farther north...

March 17, 2026

6:59 AM 6:59 PM 12 hours and 0 minutes It is St. Patrick’s Day, and not the weather, that usually brings green to our part of the world. In an average year snow cover is now gone from the Champlain Valley and the lower elevations of the southern counties of...

March 21, 2026

6:52 AM 7:04 PM 12 hours and 12 minutes Fourteen years ago, March 2012 was the warmest on record for most locations. The warmest First Day of Spring saw thermometers climb to 80 or more, the earliest it has reached 80 degrees on modern record. Global warming? Perhaps,...

February 17, 2026

6:47 AM 5:22 PM 10 hours and 35 minutes Classic New England snow storms are often measured against the tremendous storm that struck all of New England on this date in 1958. As a storm, it wasn’t until 1993 that winter storm brought a foot or more of snow from...

February 21, 2026

6:41 AM 5:28 PM 10 hours and 47 minutes The longest siege of arctic weather on modern records finally ended on this date in 1979. West Burke and Enosburg Falls recorded 18 straight mornings of below zero temperatures, dropping as low as -37 in West Burke, and -38 in...