by FLEK Admin | Jan 22, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:18 AM Sunset: 4:46 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 28 minutes Going way back in the records, we find on this date in 1906 we were in the midst of a tremendous January thaw. Temperatures reached the 50s and 60s from the 20th to the 23rd, Burlington...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 21, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:19 AM Sunset: 4:45 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 26 minutes January thaws are always a mixed blessing. Naturally the skiers don’t find as much pleasure and delight as they would with a fresh foot of powder, and as our recent thaw demonstrated, rain...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 20, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:19 AM Sunset: 4:44 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 25 minutes 30 years ago, the first of two severe cold spells brought record cold on this date in 1994. Following a heavy snowstorm of 10 to 20 inches on the 18th, arctic air settled in over the fresh,...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 19, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:20 AM Sunset: 4:42 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 22 minutes This date holds its place in New England weather records as Cold Friday, after the severe blast of cold air that arrived on January 19th, 1810. Thermometers were not common, so no record of a...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 18, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:21 AM Sunset: 4:41 PM Length of the 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...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 17, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:21 AM Sunset: 4:40 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 19 minutes Over 200 years 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 static...
