by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:30 AM 4:37 PM 10 hours and 7 minutes Residents in much of New England awoke to a soaking rain on this date in 1927, but there was no indication that the rain would continue for another 24 hours at alarming rates, climaxing in the awful flooding that became known as...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:39 AM 4:29 PM 9 hours and 50 minutes One of my favorite weather sayings comes along at this time each year. “If ice in November will bear a duck, nothing comes after but sleet and muck”, meaning that cold weather this early in the season will be balanced by warmer...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:25 AM 5:43 PM 10 hours and 18 minutes Over a decade on this date, in 2011, the greatest October snowstorm on record was tapering off. Only a dusting fell in the Champlain Valley, but 8 to 16 inches fell in southern VT, including 16 inches in Marlboro, and 1 to 2...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:46 AM 4:23 PM 9 hours and 37 minutes The cold winter of 1933 and ’34 experienced the first of many arctic intrusions on this date in 1933. The coldest air so early in the season dropped thermometers to 9 in Burlington, only recovering to the teens. By the morning of...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:26 AM 5:41 PM 10 hours and 15 minutes Halloween is often haunted by memories of trick-or-treating in the snow, or in the cold, but before the days of various miniature cherubs dressed as their favorite hero or greatest nightmare, October’s coldest weather frightened...
