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
6:32 AM 6:57 PM 12 hours and 25 minutes After near record cold on September 13th, 1946, Burlington was starting a string of record highs on this date in 1946. Over the next four days, thermometers would reach 84, 87, 85, and 89 degrees, summer hanging on until the...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:12 AM 7:28 PM 13 hours and 16 minutes Until this past April, the last total eclipse of the sun to cross Vermont occurred on this date in 1932. The center of the eclipse dropped southeast from Quebec, through the Northeast Kingdom, over the White Mountains and to the...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:14 AM 7:25 PM 13 hours and 11 minutes On this date in 1967, cold air was putting an end to gardens in the colder mountain valleys in the north. Bristol, VT reported 32, West Burke dropped to 30, and Grafton, NH bottomed out at 29. The coldest report came from North...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:17 AM 7:21 PM 13 hours and 4 minutes One of the earlier records of weather in Vermont is that of General Martin’s field notes. David Ludlum’s “Vermont Weather Book” notes that in this date in 1828, General Martin indicated 9.7 inches of rain from the 2nd to the 4th,...
