by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
7:26 AM 5:41 PM 10 hours 1 minutes Halloween is often haunted by memories of trick-or-treating in the snow, or in the cold, but before the days of various miniature cherubs dressed as their favorite hero or greatest nightmare, October’s coldest weather frightened...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
7:27 AM 5:40 PM 10 hours 1 minutes The first day of November greets us with the half-way point between fall and winter. The ancient peoples of western Europe knew this as Samhain – meaning literally “summer’s end”, but was actually their New Year. As one year...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
7:29 AM 5:39 PM 10 hours 1 minutes On November 2nd, 1950, much of New England was basking in the warmth of an Indian Summer spell that set records for the date and for the month. Burlington was 75, tying the record for its warmest reading ever in November, while...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
7:30 AM 5:37 PM 10 hours 1 minutes Residents in much of New England awoke to a soaking rain on this date in 1927, but there was no indication that the rain would continue for another 24 hours at alarming rates, climaxing in the awful flooding that became known as the...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
7:31 AM 5:36 PM 10 hours 1 minutes Just how much rain fell during the Flood of 1927, whose waters reached their maximum on this date? The highest total came from Somerset, VT, high in the southern Green Mountains, with 9.65 inches from the 2nd to the 4th. 8.66 inches...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
7:33 AM 5:35 PM 10 hours 1 minutes Heavy soaking rains fell on this date, in 1982. 2.17 inches set a daily rainfall record for St. Johnsbury, VT while 2.8 inches drenched Canaan, VT, and the Union Village Dam near Thetford received 2.21 inches. Although the amounts...
