by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
7:06 AM 6:05 PM 10 hours 1 minutes Many birds are on the wing this time of year, as insect-eaters are finding the pickings becoming more scarce. Yellow-rumped warblers are joined by song sparrows, flickers, woodcocks, killdeer and bluebirds. Robins may be flocking,...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
7:08 AM 6:03 PM 10 hours 1 minutes “Early winter is surely winter” as the old adage goes. A British-led Mohawk raiding party attacked Royalton, VT on this date in 1780, with mid-winter conditions, including 8 inches of snow on the ground. Although the...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
6:47 AM 6:33 PM 11 hours 1 minutes By the end of September, the weather records of interest are often those of cold and snow, which might sound discouraging. However, there is little interest in making much of a fuss over a spell of days with temperatures in the 80s....
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
6:50 AM 6:27 PM 11 hours 1 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 previous winter was harsh, the winter of 1780-81...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
6:52 AM 6:26 PM 11 hours 1 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 primarily west of the Connecticut River as a...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
6:32 AM 6:57 PM 12 hours 1 minutes After near record cold on September 13th, 1946, Burlington was starting a string of record highs on this date in 1946. Over the next four days, thermometers would reach 84, 87, 85, and 89 degrees, summer hanging on until the very...
