by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:23 AM 4:37 PM 9 hours and 14 minutes A special anniversary today for meteorology, but also photography, and even the realm of art, for it was on this date in 1885 that Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley took his first photo-micrograph of a snow crystal. He went on to...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:26 AM 4:22 PM 8 hours and 56 minutes The coldest January of the modern era in most of northern New England didn’t waste any time getting started on this date in 1970. Following the tremendous post-Christmas storm, arctic air was almost without relent much of...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:22 AM 4:39 PM 9 hours and 17 minutes Dusting off some of the older record books on this date in 1831, a heavy coastal storm produced 8 to 10 inches of snow in Keene, NH with much blowing and drifting. The snow was heaviest from southern New England down into...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:21 AM 4:40 PM 9 hours and 19 minutes More than two centuries ago on this date, in 1817, snow with thunder fell, the static electricity creating a most unusual effect. In Williamstown, VT St. Elmo’s fire (a glowing discharge of static electricity) was seen...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:26 AM 4:23 PM 8 hours and 57 minutes On this date in 1990, mild weather was in the process of delivering one of the mildest January’s on record, following the coldest winter month on Vermont records, that of December 1989. Vernon had daily high temperatures above...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:21 AM 4:41 PM 9 hours and 20 minutes The famous “snow-eating” thaw of 1996 was underway on this date. Heavy snowfall from December into early January brought snow depths of 18 to 30 inches throughout the region. But a series of storms passing to the west brought...
