by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
6:55 AM 6:20 PM 11 hours 1 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 stresses in the middle of the North American...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
7:15 AM 5:53 PM 10 hours 1 minutes An unusually heavy snowstorm on the 18th of October 1783 leaving over a foot of snow in the mountains, combined with heavy rains on this date in 1783 to produce a flood due to the melting snow, the worst flood experienced by settlers...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
6:56 AM 6:18 PM 11 hours 1 minutes A most unusual late-season surge of summer-time warmth was just beginning on this date in 1909. Readings climbed to the upper 70s and low 80s, heading for their peak on the 10th, when Burlington topped out at 81, and St. Johnsbury...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
7:17 AM 5:52 PM 10 hours 1 minutes In the wake of a snowstorm just two days earlier, record cold gripped much of Vermont and New Hampshire on this date in 1969. Concord, NH sank to 10 degrees, as did Woodstock, VT. The coldest reports came from Rochester and...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
6:58 AM 6:17 PM 11 hours 1 minutes Severe flooding swept through southeast Vermont and western New Hampshire, killing several people on this date in 2005. Rainfall amounts of 6 to 11 inches, the remnants of Tropical Storm Tammy, sent cascades of water down rivers,...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
7:18 AM 5:50 PM 10 hours 1 minutes On this date in 2005, the worst October snowstorm in recent memory coated trees with over a foot of snow in places, resulting in widespread power outages of 100,000 homes, about a third of Vermont. Snow amounts included 6 inches in...
