by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:10 AM 4:57 PM 9 hours and 47 minutes One to two feet of snow blanketed the region on this date in 1990, the second storm in a week, after a very mild start to the month resulting in a very thin snow cover on the hills, and much bare ground in the valleys. The snow...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:21 AM 4:41 PM 9 hours and 20 minutes The famous “snow-eating” thaw of 1996 was underway on this date. Heavy snowfall from December into early January brought snow depths of 18 to 30 inches throughout the region. But a series of storms passing to the west brought...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:20 AM 4:42 PM 9 hours and 22 minutes This date holds its place in New England weather records as Cold Friday, after the severe blast of cold air that arrived on January 19th, 1810. Thermometers were not common, so no record of a temperature exists from Vermont,...
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...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:24 AM 4:35 PM 9 hours and 11 minutes It was on this date in 1968, that the longest deep freeze on modern record began to let up. Many communities in northern New England and NY, and across southern Quebec went above zero for the first time in 5 days, including West...
