February 10, 2025

Sunrise: 6:57 AM Sunset: 5:13 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 16 minutes Weather patterns that create extreme periods of deep cold and snow, frequently demonstrate tremendous reversals, leading to the opposite extremes of warmth. Their timing can result in...

February 9, 2025

Sunrise: 6:58 AM Sunset: 5:11 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 13 minutes On this date in 1969, heavy snow was piling up, driven by strong winds, the first of two tremendous snowstorms that month. 20 inches was measured in Bethlehem and Rumney, NH, while Vernon, VT...

February 8, 2025

Sunrise: 7:00 AM Sunset: 5:10 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 10 minutes Tremendously cold air enveloped the region on this date in 1861, perhaps the coldest 24 hours in the 19th century. Temperatures fell throughout the 7th, bottoming out on the morning of the 8th...

February 7, 2025

Sunrise: 7:01 AM Sunset: 5:08 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 7 minutes One of New England’s greatest snowstorms brought eastern and southern New England 20 to 40 inches of snow, whipped into drifts of 5 to 10 feet, in the cold and snowy winter of 1978. In...

February 6, 2025

Sunrise: 7:02 AM Sunset: 5:07 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 5 minutes On this date in 1855 severe cold was gripping the region. In Randolph, VT on the 6th the temperature ranged from -25 to a high of -18, while Hanover, NH had a mean temperature of 19 degrees...

February 5, 2025

Sunrise: 7:03 AM Sunset: 5:06 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 3 minutes This is the date when Lake Champlain freezes over, using averages that extend back to 1816, though the lake does not freeze completely every winter. The colder weather of the 19th century, and...