by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:21 AM 8:32 PM 15 hours and 11 minutes It is St. Swithin’s Day – whom some have coined as the Patron Saint of weather people due to the weather saying associated with him – “If it rains on St. Swithin’s Day, it will rain 40 days more”. Legend has it that...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:11 AM 8:38 PM 15 hours and 27 minutes Tornadoes are a rare part of the variety of weather that makes it so interesting here, but they do occur. A note from John Hayward’s “A Gazatteer of Vermont” indicates on this date in 1833, a tornado tracked from Salem Pond in...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:19 AM 8:33 PM 15 hours and 14 minutes July of 1962 continued its frenetic behavior on this date with heavy rains from thunderstorms. Scattered frost on the 6th was followed just a few days later by tornadoes near Chester, Weathersfield, and Springfield on the 9th....
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:18 AM 8:33 PM 15 hours and 15 minutes Some of July’s coldest weather took place on this date in 1898. Strong high pressure dropping south from Canada raised the barometric reading to 30.50 inches in Brattleboro. Early morning temperatures included 36 in St....
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:24 AM 8:28 PM 15 hours and 4 minutes Dusting off the records books on this date in 1850, heavy rains caused serious flooding through southern and southwestern Vermont, into the Berkshires of Massachusetts. A tropical storm tracking north from Chesapeake Bay into...
