by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:23 AM 4:14 PM 8 hours and 51 minutes The word solstice comes from the Latin, meaning “sun standing still”, and so it appears along the southwest horizon. In only a few days the sun will begin to creep back toward the north, setting due west on the first day of...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:23 AM 4:15 PM 8 hours and 52 minutes Seven years ago on this date, 2018 experienced a “solstice thaw”, with 1 to 2 inches of rain, plus an additional 1 to 3 inches of melting snow, breaking up early ice on the rivers, and resulting in significant...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:17 AM 4:11 PM 8 hours and 54 minutes Have you ever noticed how quiet it is when the snow is falling? Snow’s delicate and lacy structure is responsible for this. Those same fanciful crystals photographed by Wilson Bentley represent a multitude of surfaces for the...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:56 AM 4:17 PM 9 hours and 21 minutes Brutal early season cold arrived on Thanksgiving of 2018, with thermometers reaching their coldest readings so early in the season on this date. Following record cold daylight on the 22nd, Saint Johnsbury dropped to 6 below zero,...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:55 AM 4:17 PM 9 hours and 22 minutes Though most interesting weather events focus more and more on snow and cold, there are still notable warm spells in late November, though none as prolonged as the Gossamer Summer that lingered nearly a week at this time in 1931....
