by FLEK Admin | Dec 25, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:24 AM Sunset: 4:16 PM Length of the day: 8 hours and 52 minutes Cold and snow might be the expectations for Christmas, however, the coldest Christmas on modern records took things to the extreme on this date in 1980. Arctic gales drove temperatures down all...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 24, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:24 AM Sunset: 4:16 PM Length of the day: 8 hours and 52 minutes Back-to-back snow storms from the 22nd to the 24th brought heavy snow to much of New England in 1970. 12 to 18 inches of snow added to the snow already on the ground to bring depths of 2 to 3...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 23, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:24 AM Sunset: 4:15 PM Length of the day: 8 hours and 51 minutes “The weather outside is frightful”, or at least cold and snowy most years at this time. But thermometers edged into the 50s and low 60s on this date in 1990, melting the thin coating of snow in...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 22, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:23 AM Sunset: 4:15 PM Length of the day: 8 hours and 52 minutes Seven years ago on this date, 2018 experienced a “solstice thaw”, with 1 to 2 inches of rain, plus an additional 1 to 3 inches of melting snow, breaking up early ice on the rivers,...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 21, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:23 AM Sunset: 4:14 PM Length of the day: 8 hours and 51 minutes The word solstice comes from the Latin, meaning “sun standing still”, and so it appears along the southwest horizon. In only a few days the sun will begin to creep back toward the north,...
by FLEK Admin | Dec 20, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:22 AM Sunset: 4:14 PM Length of the day: 8 hours and 52 minutes A winter solstice deep freeze was underway on this date in 1955. Three consecutive mornings from the 21st to the 23rd brought record low temperatures state wide. Burlington and Montpelier both...
