by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:25 AM 8:28 PM 15 hours and 3 minutes On this date in 1977 records and ice cream were melting rapidly. Both Burlington and St. Johnsbury topped out at 99 degrees, while Montpelier set its July record of 97 degrees. The heat was spread from one corner of the state to...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:32 AM 8:21 PM 14 hours and 49 minutes Weather events during the past decade have made many of us aware of the localized nature of summer rains, including the floods of 1998 in the Mad River Valley, and 2002 in the Passumpsic Valley. What appear to be isolated...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:38 AM 8:15 PM 14 hours and 37 minutes If you think it is chilly some summer morning, consider the following. In Randolph, VT, William Nutting wrote in his weather diary, “kept a fire in the office all day”, and noting a maximum of only 50 degrees on this date in...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:37 AM 8:16 PM 14 hours and 39 minutes Hot weather in July, of course that’s no surprise. July averages the greatest number of days with 90 or above – a total of five at most locations in the valleys – not exactly staggering. That’s why heat waves perhaps...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:29 AM 8:24 PM 14 hours and 55 minutes Searching back through the records books to 1830, tremendous rains from the 24th through the 26th produced one of Vermont’s most dramatic flood events. Zadock Thompson’s records from that time show 3.85 inches of rain on the...
