by FLEK Admin | Apr 22, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:55 AM Sunset: 7:43 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 48 minutes Today is Earth Day, an event dating back to the 1970s. Thinking about the phrase, “think globally, act locally” I like to use this date to do a little hands-on work. Though the challenge...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 21, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:57 AM Sunset: 7:42 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 45 minutes Spring appeared to be well underway on this date, in 1993. Temperatures reached the 60s in most places just ahead of a cold front. By evening, rain had turned to snow in the Adirondacks. While...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 20, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:58 AM Sunset: 7:41 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 43 minutes Spring is obviously not a smooth progression forward, but is fraught with set backs, such as the heavy, wet snowstorm that hit on this date in 1953. Most lower elevations experienced a cold...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 19, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:00 AM Sunset: 7:40 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 40 minutes A rare April heat wave was climaxing on this date during the Bicentennial year of the United States, 1976. Thermometers reached mid-summer levels, including 90 degrees in Montpelier and St....
by FLEK Admin | Apr 18, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:02 AM Sunset: 7:38 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 36 minutes Almost 30 years ago, April of 1996 was a very snowy one across the higher elevations of New York and northern New England. On this date Peru, VT watched another seven inches of snow pile up,...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 17, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:03 AM Sunset: 7:37 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 34 minutes An interesting weather week was finishing up on this date in 1976. It started with an inch or two of snow on Monday. But by the 17th a heat wave that developed in the middle of the country...
