by FLEK Admin | Aug 3, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:40 AM Sunset: 8:12 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 32 minutes Just over a century ago on this date, in 1923, Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office in Plymouth, VT. David Ludlum, the author of the Vermont Weather Book, and expert on weather history,...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 2, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:39 AM Sunset: 8:13 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 34 minutes Scorching heat baked all of New England on this date in 1975. Coined “Hot Saturday” by weather historian David Ludlum, it reached 95 degrees or better at nearly all reporting stations,...
by FLEK Admin | Aug 1, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:38 AM Sunset: 8:15 PM Length of the day: 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...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 31, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:37 AM Sunset: 8:16 PM Length of the day: 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...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 30, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:36 AM Sunset: 8:17 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 41 minutes Just days after locally torrential rains, a larger swath of heavy rains soaked much of central New England from northwest Connecticut northeast to southwestern Maine on this date in 1969. 4.81...
by FLEK Admin | Jul 29, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:34 AM Sunset: 8:18 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 44 minutes On this date in 1883 a great aurora was seen across the northeast. This was near the peak of sunspots during the 1880s, part of the Sun’s 11 year cycle. In the current Sun’s cycle we are also...
