by FLEK Admin | Oct 7, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:55 AM Sunset: 6:20 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 25 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...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 6, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:54 AM Sunset: 6:22 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 28 minutes On this date in 1836, a cold weather pattern had settled into the northeast. The second of three early snows fell, focused mostly on southern New York and northern Pennsylvania where up to 26...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 5, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:53 AM Sunset: 6:24 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 31 minutes Going back to 1965, following some unseasonably hot weather in late September, the weather turned shockingly winter-like. Temperatures remained in the 30s, while snow dusted the ground. The...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 4, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:52 AM Sunset: 6:26 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 34 minutes The earliest heavy snowfall on modern record dumped up to 20 inches across the higher elevations of southwest Vermont, including 18 inches in Pownal on this date, in 1987. The snow was...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 3, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:50 AM Sunset: 6:27 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 37 minutes Early snowfalls are not always the signal of a tough winter on the way. Three inches of snow fell on this date in 1780 in Pomfret according to Jonathan Carpenter’s diary, and while the...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 2, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:49 AM Sunset: 6:29 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 40 minutes October of 1950 opened with some of the warmest weather so late in the season. Readings in the upper 70s and low 80s set records including 82 in Burlington, and 84 in St. Johnsbury and...