by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:20 AM 4:12 PM 8 hours and 52 minutes December’s long nights, and short days with a meager sun even on the sunniest of days means that spells of cold weather become increasingly common. One of the earliest extended spells of cold weather was at its worst on this date...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:22 AM 4:13 PM 8 hours and 51 minutes 1998 featured the warmest December of record for most locations in northern New England, yet that year on this date, Burlington set a snowfall record! Low pressure tracking up the east coast gave a quick 5 to 10 inches of snow to...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:23 AM 4:14 PM 8 hours and 51 minutes The word solstice comes from the Latin, meaning “sun standing still”, and so it appears along the southwest horizon. In only a few days the sun will begin to creep back toward the north, setting due west on the first day of...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:24 AM 4:15 PM 8 hours and 51 minutes “The weather outside is frightful”, or at least cold and snowy most years at this time. But thermometers edged into the 50s and low 60s on this date in 1990, melting the thin coating of snow in the valleys, and reducing it...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:24 AM 4:16 PM 8 hours and 52 minutes Cold and snow might be the expectations for Christmas, however, the coldest Christmas on modern records took things to the extreme on this date in 1980. Arctic gales drove temperatures down all day. Burlington, VT started the day...
