by FLEK Admin | Mar 17, 2025 | 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, 2025 | 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...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 15, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:03 AM Sunset: 6:56 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 53 minutes Beware the Ides of March…not some astrological prediction or vision of fate. Instead, we are on the cusp of the season of spring – a season capable of just about anything! On this...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 14, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:04 AM Sunset: 6:55 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 51 minutes On this date 41 years ago, in 1984, one of the heaviest snowfalls on record was coming to an end. Peru, VT set a state record for the greatest snowfall in 24 hours with 38 inches. St....
by FLEK Admin | Mar 13, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:06 AM Sunset: 6:54 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 48 minutes Heavy, wet snow and strong winds made a mess of things on this date in 1962. After 5 inches of snow, strong south winds gusting to 81 mph in Bennington changed snow to rain, and knocked down...
by FLEK Admin | Mar 12, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:08 AM Sunset: 6:53 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 45 minutes The Blizzard of 1888 raged region wide on this date. A general fall of 2 to 4 feet of snow was whipped by north to northeast gales into snow drifts of 10 to 15 feet, while temperatures headed...
