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...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 14, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:23 AM Sunset: 4:36 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 13 minutes A January thaw in 1934 ended on this date with a monstrous snowstorm, which turns out to be the fifth greatest snowfall in a 24 hour period for Burlington, VT. 24.2 inches piled up, and was...
