by FLEK Admin | Sep 23, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:39 AM Sunset: 6:46 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 7 minutes The earliest general snowfall on records took place on this date in 1885. As would be expected, the mountains had the greatest amounts, including 12 inches on Mt. Mansfield with drifts to 3...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 22, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:37 AM Sunset: 6:48 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 11 minutes Only about once each century does a full-blown hurricane cross New England and reach the interior. In the 19th century it was the Great September Gale of 1815 that roared up through...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 21, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:36 AM Sunset: 6:50 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 14 minutes On this day, 86 years ago, all of New England was battered by the Great Hurricane of 1938 – the worst hurricane in New England’s history on many scores. Wind damage was severe –...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 20, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:35 AM Sunset: 6:51 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 16 minutes Tornadoes are rare enough here, but on this date in 1845, a tremendous tornado developed near Rochester, NY and churned east across the Adirondacks, finishing this trek as a water spout over...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 19, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:34 AM Sunset: 6:53 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 19 minutes General Martin Field, who compiled weather records over many years from Newfane, VT, noted on this date in 1827, heavy rains began, and when they let up on the 21st, 8 inches of rain had...
by FLEK Admin | Sep 18, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:33 AM Sunset: 6:55 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 22 minutes There are many notes of very smokey air throughout New England from the 10th to the 18th of September in 1908. Forest fires in Canada sent a great deal of smoke south on prevailing northwest...
