by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:08 AM 6:03 PM 10 hours and 55 minutes “Early winter is surely winter” as the old adage goes. A British-led Mohawk raiding party attacked Royalton, VT on this date in 1780, with mid-winter conditions, including 8 inches of snow on the ground. Although the...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:10 AM 6:00 PM 10 hours and 50 minutes One of October’s longest and warmest spells of Gossamer Summer was drawing to a hazy, stagnant close on this date in 1947. For the fourth day in a row, the thermometer reached or exceeded 80 degrees in Burlington, with figures...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:13 AM 5:56 PM 10 hours and 43 minutes Just over 50 years ago on this date, in 1972, bitter cold covered smaller ponds with ice. On the 19th an early season northeaster clipped southern New England with 2 to 4 inches of snow on the hills of Connecticut and Rhode...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:15 AM 5:53 PM 10 hours and 38 minutes An unusually heavy snowstorm on the 18th of October 1783 leaving over a foot of snow in the mountains, combined with heavy rains on this date in 1783 to produce a flood due to the melting snow, the worst flood experienced by...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:18 AM 5:50 PM 10 hours and 32 minutes Twenty years ago on this date in 2005, the worst October snowstorm in recent memory coated trees with over a foot of snow in places, resulting in widespread power outages of 100,000 homes, about a third of Vermont. Snow amounts...
