by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
6:40 AM 6:44 PM 12 hours 1 minutes Cold spells are common during the last week of September, with the average first frosts noted at Montpelier, Newport, Readsboro, Rochester, Rutland, and St. Johnsbury all occurring between today and the weekend. Of course different...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
6:41 AM 6:42 PM 12 hours 1 minutes On this date in 1950, residents of most of the northeastern U.S., from the Great Lakes to the mid-Atlantic coast east to Maine, as well as neighboring provinces of Quebec and Ontario watched the sun fade as a dense pall of smoke from...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
6:42 AM 6:40 PM 11 hours 1 minutes If there ever was a year famous in New England weather annals, it is that of 1816. And in that year on this date, the final straw came in the form of severe cold, lasting from the 26th through the 29th, with frost throughout New...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
6:43 AM 6:38 PM 11 hours 1 minutes On this date in 1947 much of the northeast shivered with the coldest weather so early in the season. In the normally mild Champlain Valley, Burlington was a record 27, St. Johnsbury falling to 22. But the mountain valleys fell to...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
6:44 AM 6:37 PM 11 hours 1 minutes It was on this date in 1836 that snow was noted on the tops of the mountains of extreme southern Vermont. The temperature in the valley at Bennington registered 34, while an observer in Williamstown, MA, just two miles south of...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
6:46 AM 6:35 PM 11 hours 1 minutes On this date in 1844, a rather early start to the winter startled residents. Several inches of snow fell over higher elevations of the northeast from Pennsylvania to Maine. 6 inches was noted in Wheelock, VT, in the heart of the...
