by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:26 AM 7:06 PM 12 hours and 40 minutes Barometers were extremely low on this date in 1960, though that was hardly what people were paying attention to. Hurricane Donna tracked north through New England, from New London, CT to Rumford, ME, placing our listening area...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:12 AM 7:28 PM 13 hours and 16 minutes Until this past April, the last total eclipse of the sun to cross Vermont occurred on this date in 1932. The center of the eclipse dropped southeast from Quebec, through the Northeast Kingdom, over the White Mountains and to the...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:21 AM 7:14 PM 12 hours and 53 minutes After a relatively cool summer, on this date in 1945 a late-season heat wave was in progress. It started on the 6th when temperatures reached the upper 80s to low 90s, then peaked on the 7th at 94 in Burlington and 92 in St....
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:17 AM 7:21 PM 13 hours and 4 minutes One of the earlier records of weather in Vermont is that of General Martin’s field notes. David Ludlum’s “Vermont Weather Book” notes that in this date in 1828, General Martin indicated 9.7 inches of rain from the 2nd to the 4th,...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:10 AM 7:32 PM 13 hours and 22 minutes The second of three tropical weather systems was sweeping across the region on this date in 1893. Taking a track from Lake Ontario to Montreal to northern Maine, the passage of the storm to the north limited rainfall, although...
