by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:07 AM 8:38 PM 15 hours and 31 minutes Summer may be underway, but that doesn’t mean all tomatoes are automatically safe. Over a century ago on this date, in 1918, the second of two frosty mornings in a row was recorded in many of the colder valleys. St....
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:07 AM 8:38 PM 15 hours and 31 minutes One of the most severe outbreaks of weather in Vermont and New Hampshire roared across the region on this date in 1782. An undetermined number of tornadoes swept from southwest to northeast, affecting Pawlet and Manchester, with...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:07 AM 8:33 PM 15 hours and 26 minutes The summer of 1933, famous for the beginnings of the Dust Bowl in the Great Plains, was also hot and dry locally. On this date a heat wave was underway, topping out at 96 degrees in Cornwall, VT in the Champlain basin, and 95 in...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:07 AM 8:32 PM 15 hours and 25 minutes On this date in 1903, the first rain in nearly 9 weeks fell, continuing for 4 days with about an inch of total rainfall. In many locations, including Burlington, no rain fell at all in the month of May. The dry weather sparked...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:07 AM 8:32 PM 15 hours and 25 minutes A very rare June snowstorm struck on this date in 1816, starting what became known as the “Year without a Summer”. According to the newspaper “The North Star” from Danville, Vermont from June of 1816, “on the night of the 7th...
