October 7, 2026

6:55 AM 6:20 PM 11 hours and 25 minutes New England is hardly the place we think a lot about earthquakes, though we get a pretty good jolt now and then. The majority of our quakes are known as mid-plate quakes, resulting from stresses in the middle of the North...

September 26, 2026

6:42 AM 6:40 PM 11 hours and 58 minutes If there ever was a year famous in New England weather annals, it is that of 1816. And in that year on this date, the final straw came in the form of severe cold, lasting from the 26th through the 29th, with frost throughout New...

September 5, 2026

6:18 AM 7:19 PM 13 hours and 1 minutes An early frost snuck in under the cover of night on this date in 1963, re-writing a few entries in the record books, and ending the growing season a little earlier than some gardeners had planned. Thermometers stayed above...

September 17, 2026

6:32 AM 6:57 PM 12 hours and 25 minutes After near record cold on September 13th, 1946, Burlington was starting a string of record highs on this date in 1946. Over the next four days, thermometers would reach 84, 87, 85, and 89 degrees, summer hanging on until the...

September 1, 2026

6:13 AM 7:26 PM 13 hours and 13 minutes September arrives with summer still in place, both on the calendar, and according to the weather records fifteen years ago on this date, in 2010. A week of temperatures in the upper 80s and low 90s included record highs of 92 in...