by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:35 AM 4:32 PM 9 hours and 57 minutes An early season snowstorm dumped 10 to 20 inches of snow over the higher elevations on this date in 1968, getting many ski areas off to an early start. A storm riding up the coast brought mostly rain, but changed to snow first in...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:30 AM 4:37 PM 10 hours and 7 minutes Residents in much of New England awoke to a soaking rain on this date in 1927, but there was no indication that the rain would continue for another 24 hours at alarming rates, climaxing in the awful flooding that became known as...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:31 AM 4:36 PM 10 hours and 5 minutes Just how much rain fell during the Flood of 1927, whose waters reached their maximum on this date? The highest total came from Somerset, VT, high in the southern Green Mountains, with 9.65 inches from the 2nd to the 4th. 8.66...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:27 AM 5:40 PM 10 hours and 13 minutes The first day of November greets us with the half-way point between fall and winter. The ancient peoples of western Europe knew this as Samhain – meaning literally “summer’s end”, but was actually their New Year. As one...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:43 AM 4:25 PM 9 hours and 42 minutes Controlling the weather has been the subject of many discussions as to its merit. Cloud seeding had its beginnings on this date in 1946 over the Berkshires of Massachusetts. Scientists from General Electric led by Dr. Irving...
