by FLEK Admin | Jan 19, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:20 AM Sunset: 4:42 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 22 minutes This date holds its place in New England weather records as Cold Friday, after the severe blast of cold air that arrived on January 19th, 1810. Thermometers were not common, so no record of a...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 18, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:21 AM Sunset: 4:41 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 20 minutes The famous “snow-eating” thaw of 1996 was underway on this date. Heavy snowfall from December into early January brought snow depths of 18 to 30 inches throughout the region. But a series of...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 17, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:21 AM Sunset: 4:40 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 19 minutes More than two centuries ago on this date, in 1817, snow with thunder fell, the static electricity creating a most unusual effect. In Williamstown, VT St. Elmo’s fire (a glowing discharge...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 16, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:22 AM Sunset: 4:39 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 17 minutes Dusting off some of the older record books on this date in 1831, a heavy coastal storm produced 8 to 10 inches of snow in Keene, NH with much blowing and drifting. The snow was heaviest from...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 15, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:23 AM Sunset: 4:37 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 14 minutes A special anniversary today for meteorology, but also photography, and even the realm of art, for it was on this date in 1885 that Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley took his first photo-micrograph of...
