by FLEK Admin | Apr 22, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:55 AM Sunset: 7:43 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 48 minutes Today is Earth Day, an event dating back to the 1970s. Thinking about the phrase, “think globally, act locally” I like to use this date to do a little hands-on work. Though the challenge...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 21, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:57 AM Sunset: 7:42 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 45 minutes Spring appeared to be well underway on this date, in 1993. Temperatures reached the 60s in most places just ahead of a cold front. By evening, rain had turned to snow in the Adirondacks. While...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 20, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:58 AM Sunset: 7:41 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 43 minutes Spring is obviously not a smooth progression forward, but is fraught with set backs, such as the heavy, wet snowstorm that hit on this date in 1953. Most lower elevations experienced a cold...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 19, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:00 AM Sunset: 7:40 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 40 minutes A rare April heat wave was climaxing on this date during the Bicentennial year of the United States, 1976. Thermometers reached mid-summer levels, including 90 degrees in Montpelier and St....
by FLEK Admin | Apr 18, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:02 AM Sunset: 7:38 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 36 minutes Almost 30 years ago, April of 1996 was a very snowy one across the higher elevations of New York and northern New England. On this date Peru, VT watched another seven inches of snow pile up,...
