by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:21 AM 8:32 PM 15 hours and 11 minutes It is St. Swithin’s Day – whom some have coined as the Patron Saint of weather people due to the weather saying associated with him – “If it rains on St. Swithin’s Day, it will rain 40 days more”. Legend has it that...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:06 AM 8:36 PM 15 hours and 30 minutes The sunrise this morning, and again tomorrow morning, are the earliest of the year, even though we have not quite reached summer. This slight discrepancy is due to our attempts to make time much more of a constant than it really...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:06 AM 8:33 PM 15 hours and 27 minutes Two rounds of severe thunderstorms banged and crashed their way across Vermont on this date in 2008. Over 50 reports of damaging winds, and several reports of hail had untility companies scrambling to service 50,000 customers...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:06 AM 8:34 PM 15 hours and 28 minutes Snowstorms in June are rare, but the one on this date in 1842 exceeded that of its more famous predecessor of 1816. Snow was noted in all the northeastern states, and several inches were measured in much of northern Vermont and...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:06 AM 8:35 PM 15 hours and 29 minutes On this date in 1988, the hottest summer of the second half of the 20th century was getting its first taste of heat. Thermometers soared to a record 94 in Burlington, and 96 in Vernon and Hanover, NH. The 90s lasted three days,...
