by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:18 AM 4:46 PM 9 hours and 28 minutes Going way back in the records, we find on this date in 1906 we were in the midst of a tremendous January thaw. Temperatures reached the 50s and 60s from the 20th to the 23rd, Burlington reaching 59 on the 22, and 64 on the 23rd,...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:19 AM 4:45 PM 9 hours and 26 minutes January thaws are always a mixed blessing. Naturally the skiers don’t find as much pleasure and delight as they would with a fresh foot of powder, and as our recent thaw demonstrated, rain following cold weather can lead to icy...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:15 AM 4:50 PM 9 hours and 35 minutes Snow was falling fast and thick on January 25th, 1836. The second heavy storm of a snowy month, it brought a general snowfall of a foot and a half to most valleys, including 18 inches in Randolph, VT and 20 inches in Hanover, NH....
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:25 AM 4:29 PM 9 hours and 4 minutes Over a quarter century ago, Vermont’s most severe ice storm in history was underway on this date, in 1998. By the time it was over, 2 to 5 inches of ice throughout the Champlain Valley, and at elevations between 1600 and...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:24 AM 4:33 PM 9 hours and 9 minutes The 10th and 11th of January, 1859 were among the coldest days of the 19th century. The temperature on the UVM campus on Professor Petty’s thermometer read -26 at 2 PM, and the intensity of the cold held thermometers below zero...
