by FLEK Admin | Mar 21, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:52 AM Sunset: 7:04 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 12 minutes Twelve years ago, March 2012 was the warmest on record for most locations. The warmest First Day of Spring saw thermometers climb to 80 or more, the earliest it has reached 80 degrees on...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 20, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:53 AM Sunset: 7:03 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 10 minutes Like something out of modern-day politics, the election of Thomas Jefferson in March 1801, the first change in party leadership in the U.S., became a scapegoat, blaming Jefferson for the...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 19, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:55 AM Sunset: 7:01 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 6 minutes The second of two heavy rains fell on this date in 1936, resulting in the worst all-New England flooding on record. The combination of rainfall of 3 to 6 inches, and melting of a water-laden...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 18, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:57 AM Sunset: 7:00 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 3 minutes Over 50 years ago on this date, severe cold gripped the region in 1967, following a fresh snowfall of 3 to 6 inches. The coldest readings so late in the season were recorded in St. Johnsbury,...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 17, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:59 AM Sunset: 6:59 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 0 minutes It is St. Patrick’s Day, and not the weather, that usually brings green to our part of the world. In an average year snow cover is now gone from the Champlain Valley and the lower...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 16, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:01 AM Sunset: 6:58 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 57 minutes Although some years winter still has the upper hand, on this date in 1990, spring was well underway. Muddy roads and rapidly melting snow were under foot, while the sunny skies sent...
