by FLEK Admin | Oct 12, 2023 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:01 AM Sunset: 6:11 PM Length of the day: 11 hours 1 minutes Columbus landed in what is now the Bahamas on this date in 1492, and I wanted to note his meteorological connections, as he was the first European to write about a storm, known to the Guatemalan...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 11, 2023 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:00 AM Sunset: 6:13 PM Length of the day: 11 hours 1 minutes October and November are frequented by extended intervals of warm weather, sometimes called “Gossamer Summer”. Unlike other times of the year, these spells will set records for three or...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 10, 2023 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:59 AM Sunset: 6:15 PM Length of the day: 11 hours 1 minutes One of the more famous weather events in early New England history transpired on this date in 1804. Known as the Snow Hurricane, perhaps the greatest early season snow in northwestern New England,...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 9, 2023 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:58 AM Sunset: 6:17 PM Length of the day: 11 hours 1 minutes Severe flooding swept through southeast Vermont and western New Hampshire, killing several people on this date in 2005. Rainfall amounts of 6 to 11 inches, the remnants of Tropical Storm Tammy,...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 8, 2023 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:56 AM Sunset: 6:18 PM Length of the day: 11 hours 1 minutes A most unusual late-season surge of summer-time warmth was just beginning on this date in 1909. Readings climbed to the upper 70s and low 80s, heading for their peak on the 10th, when Burlington...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 7, 2023 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:55 AM Sunset: 6:20 PM Length of the day: 11 hours 1 minutes New England is hardly the place we think a lot about earthquakes, though we get a pretty good jolt now and then. The majority of our quakes are known as mid-plate quakes, resulting from stresses in...
