May 22, 2025

Sunrise: 5:17 AM Sunset: 8:18 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 1 minutes The first heat wave of a hot summer was underway on this date in 1911. Temperatures warmed quickly to the 70s and 80s during the first three weeks of May. Then, starting on the 21st,...

May 21, 2025

Sunrise: 5:17 AM Sunset: 8:17 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 0 minutes Cold fronts can still pack a wallop this time of year, but you’d be hard pressed to find a more dramatic change than what happened this week back in 1906. The temperature soared to 92 in...

May 20, 2025

Sunrise: 5:18 AM Sunset: 8:16 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 58 minutes Snow fell heavily on this date in 1892 in central Vermont. Strafford, VT noted 16 inches of snow through the 21st, with up to 28 inches on the higher elevations. North Bridgewater had 30...

May 19, 2025

Sunrise: 5:19 AM Sunset: 8:15 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 56 minutes On this date in 1883, Vermont experienced its worst forest fire in the state’s history in the vicinity of Groton. And looking back over 200 years ago in 1780, smoke from fires was...

May 18, 2025

Sunrise: 5:20 AM Sunset: 8:14 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 54 minutes On this date in 1877, a family of tornadoes were spawned in eastern New York near Saratoga Springs, and moved southeast into Bennington County, VT, just to the north of Bennington, were the...

May 17, 2025

Sunrise: 5:21 AM Sunset: 8:13 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 52 minutes The spring of 1977 was warm and dry. On this date thermometers headed for the upper 80s and low 90s, setting a record in Burlington at 90 degrees, reaching 89 in Cornwall, Rutland, and South...