by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:46 AM 6:35 PM 11 hours and 49 minutes On this date in 1844, a rather early start to the winter startled residents. Several inches of snow fell over higher elevations of the northeast from Pennsylvania to Maine. 6 inches was noted in Wheelock, VT, in the heart of the...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:37 AM 6:48 PM 12 hours and 11 minutes Only about once each century does a full-blown hurricane cross New England and reach the interior. In the 19th century it was the Great September Gale of 1815 that roared up through Connecticut into Massachusetts and then New...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:53 AM 6:24 PM 11 hours and 31 minutes Going back 60 years ago, to 1965, following some unseasonably hot weather in late September, the weather turned shockingly winter-like. Temperatures remained in the 30s, while snow dusted the ground. The timing was right in the...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:55 AM 6:20 PM 11 hours and 25 minutes New England is hardly the place we think a lot about earthquakes, though we get a pretty good jolt now and then. The majority of our quakes are known as mid-plate quakes, resulting from stresses in the middle of the North...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:47 AM 6:33 PM 11 hours and 46 minutes By the end of September, the weather records of interest are often those of cold and snow, which might sound discouraging. However, there is little interest in making much of a fuss over a spell of days with temperatures in the...
