by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:55 AM 6:20 PM 11 hours and 25 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...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:37 AM 6:48 PM 12 hours and 11 minutes Only about once each century does a full-blown hurricane cross New England and reach the interior. In the 19th century it was the Great September Gale of 1815 that roared up through Connecticut into Massachusetts and then New...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:39 AM 6:46 PM 12 hours and 7 minutes The earliest general snowfall on records took place on this date in 1885. As would be expected, the mountains had the greatest amounts, including 12 inches on Mt. Mansfield with drifts to 3 feet. Similar amounts were reported in...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:40 AM 6:44 PM 12 hours and 4 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...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:41 AM 6:42 PM 12 hours and 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...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:42 AM 6:40 PM 11 hours and 58 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...
