August 1, 2024

Sunrise: 5:38 AM Sunset: 8:15 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 37 minutes If you think it is chilly some summer morning, consider the following. In Randolph, VT, William Nutting wrote in his weather diary, “kept a fire in the office all day”, and noting a maximum of...

July 31, 2024

Sunrise: 5:37 AM Sunset: 8:16 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 39 minutes Hot weather in July, of course that’s no surprise. July averages the greatest number of days with 90 or above – a total of five at most locations in the valleys – not exactly...

July 30, 2024

Sunrise: 5:36 AM Sunset: 8:17 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 41 minutes Just days after locally torrential rains, a larger swath of heavy rains soaked much of central New England from northwest Connecticut northeast to southwestern Maine on this date in 1969. 4.81...

July 29, 2024

Sunrise: 5:34 AM Sunset: 8:18 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 44 minutes On this date in 1883 a great aurora was seen across the northeast. This was near the peak of sunspots during the 1880s, part of the Sun’s 11 year cycle. In the current Sun’s cycle we are also...

July 28, 2024

Sunrise: 5:33 AM Sunset: 8:19 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 46 minutes Summer is the wettest season in northern New England thanks to the higher humidity available to thunderstorms. On this date in 1913 St. Johnsbury recorded its wettest 24 hours, as...

July 27, 2024

Sunrise: 5:32 AM Sunset: 8:21 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 49 minutes Weather events during the past decade have made many of us aware of the localized nature of summer rains, including the floods of 1998 in the Mad River Valley, and 2002 in the Passumpsic...