January 18, 2026

Sunrise: 7:21 AM Sunset: 4:41 PM Length of day: 9 hours and 20 minutes The famous “snow-eating” thaw of 1996 was underway on this date. Heavy snowfall from December into early January brought snow depths of 18 to 30 inches throughout the region. But a series of storms...

January 17, 2026

Sunrise: 7:21 AM Sunset: 4:40 PM Length of day: 9 hours and 19 minutes More than two centuries ago on this date, in 1817, snow with thunder fell, the static electricity creating a most unusual effect. In Williamstown, VT St. Elmo’s fire (a glowing discharge of...

January 16, 2026

Sunrise: 7:22 AM Sunset: 4:39 PM Length of day: 9 hours and 17 minutes Dusting off some of the older record books on this date in 1831, a heavy coastal storm produced 8 to 10 inches of snow in Keene, NH with much blowing and drifting. The snow was heaviest from...

January 15, 2026

Sunrise: 7:23 AM Sunset: 4:37 PM Length of day: 9 hours and 14 minutes A special anniversary today for meteorology, but also photography, and even the realm of art, for it was on this date in 1885 that Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley took his first photo-micrograph of a...

January 14, 2026

Sunrise: 7:23 AM Sunset: 4:36 PM Length of day: 9 hours and 13 minutes A January thaw in 1934 ended on this date with a monstrous snowstorm, which turns out to be the fifth greatest snowfall in a 24 hour period for Burlington, VT. 24.2 inches piled up, and was...

January 13, 2026

Sunrise: 7:24 AM Sunset: 4:35 PM Length of day: 9 hours and 11 minutes It was on this date in 1968, that the longest deep freeze on modern record began to let up. Many communities in northern New England and NY, and across southern Quebec went above zero for the first...