by FLEK Admin | May 30, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:11 AM Sunset: 8:25 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 14 minutes Today is the traditional date for Memorial Day, or as it was known in the 1800s – Decoration Day. Decoration Day of 1884 saw one of the latest episodes of measurable snow on record. Both...
by FLEK Admin | May 29, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:11 AM Sunset: 8:25 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 14 minutes The second hot May in a row was setting records on this date in 1978. Burlington reached 89 or better from the 26th through the end of the month, including records of 92 on the 28th and 89 on...
by FLEK Admin | May 28, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:12 AM Sunset: 8:24 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 12 minutes On this date in 1775, according to the book, “The History of Keene”, which quoted from the Abner Sanger diary, “Toward Night comes up a Terrible Hurricane Thunder shower....
by FLEK Admin | May 27, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:13 AM Sunset: 8:23 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 10 minutes One of the coldest Mays of the 20th century was capped off by a snowy northeaster in 1967. Residents of northern New England were waking up to a dusting to an inch in southern Vermont,...
by FLEK Admin | May 26, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:13 AM Sunset: 8:22 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 9 minutes Thirteen years ago, in 2011, a series of moisture-laden thunderstorms tracking northeast along the Rt. 2 corridor from Barre northeast to St. Johnsbury, unleashed 4 to 7 inches of rain in six...
by FLEK Admin | May 25, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:14 AM Sunset: 8:21 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 7 minutes On this date in 1832, 8 inches of snow was reported near Burlington, VT according to David Ludlum’s’ “The Vermont Weather Book”. May snow are not unheard of, though they...
