by FLEK Admin | Jan 17, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:21 AM Sunset: 4:40 PM Length of the 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...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 16, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:22 AM Sunset: 4:39 PM Length of the 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...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 15, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:23 AM Sunset: 4:37 PM Length of the 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...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 14, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:23 AM Sunset: 4:36 PM Length of the 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...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 13, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:24 AM Sunset: 4:35 PM Length of the 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...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 12, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:24 AM Sunset: 4:34 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 10 minutes A warm, thawing rain melted a very thin covering of snow on this date in 1980, delaying the arrival of steady snow cover until the 20th, the latest on modern records. Record temperatures for...
