by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:23 AM 4:36 PM 9 hours and 13 minutes A January thaw in 1934 ended on this date with a monstrous snowstorm, which turns out to be the fifth greatest snowfall in a 24 hour period for Burlington, VT. 24.2 inches piled up, and was followed by one of the coldest...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:26 AM 4:27 PM 9 hours and 1 minutes It was on this date in 1856 that the only significant snowfall of the month occurred, and less than 6 inches in northern Vermont and New Hampshire, ranging closer to a foot along the New Hampshire-Massachusetts border according to...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:26 AM 4:24 PM 8 hours and 58 minutes The Great Snow of 2010 buried western VT on this date, with 2 to 3 feet of snow on this date. A storm drifting west from the Atlantic forced a persistent feed of moisture through the Champlain Valley and the western slopes of the...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:24 AM 4:34 PM 9 hours and 10 minutes A warm, thawing rain melted a very thin covering of snow on this date in 1980, delaying the arrival of steady snow cover until the 20th, the latest on modern records. Record temperatures for this date include 52 in Montpelier, 54...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:23 AM 4:37 PM 9 hours and 14 minutes A special anniversary today for meteorology, but also photography, and even the realm of art, for it was on this date in 1885 that Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley took his first photo-micrograph of a snow crystal. He went on to...
