by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:15 AM 8:20 PM 15 hours and 5 minutes Early season heat gets to be more common by the last week of May. The ground, the lakes, and the ocean are slow to warm up, but by now, most record highs reach 90 degrees or more. Such is the case on this date in 1964, again in...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:10 AM 8:27 PM 15 hours and 17 minutes Going back just shy of 40 years ago on this date, in 1986, severe thunderstorms pounded the region with damaging winds and hail. North Hartland and Brookfield both reported 1 inch diameter hail, with 3/4 inch hail falling in...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:08 AM 8:30 PM 15 hours and 22 minutes A severe frost struck much of the northeast, midwest, and Great Lakes on this date in 1859. Crops were severely damaged in New England, with most of the corn crop forced to by cut down and started again. 7 AM temperatures...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:13 AM 8:22 PM 15 hours and 9 minutes Fourteen years ago, in 2011, a series of moisture-laden thunderstorms tracking northeast along the Rt. 2 corridor from Barre northeast to St. Johnsbury, unleashed 4 to 7 inches of rain in six hours, resulting in severe flash...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:12 AM 8:24 PM 15 hours and 12 minutes On this date in 1775, according to the book, “The History of Keene”, which quoted from the Abner Sanger diary, “Toward Night comes up a Terrible Hurricane Thunder shower. Trees are whirled down in Great...
