by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
5:36 AM 8:17 PM 14 hours 1 minutes Just days after locally torrential rains, a larger swath of heavy rains soaked much of central New England from northwest Connecticut northeast to southwestern Maine on this date in 1969. 4.81 inches was recorded in Newfane, VT,...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
5:37 AM 8:16 PM 14 hours 1 minutes Hot weather in July, of course that’s no surprise. July averages the greatest number of days with 90 or above – a total of five at most locations in the valleys – not exactly staggering. That’s why heat waves perhaps...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
5:38 AM 8:15 PM 14 hours 1 minutes If you think it is chilly some summer morning, consider the following. In Randolph, VT, William Nutting wrote in his weather diary, “kept a fire in the office all day”, and noting a maximum of only 50 degrees on this date in 1842. It...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
5:39 AM 8:13 PM 14 hours 1 minutes Scorching heat baked all of New England on this date in 1975. Coined “Hot Saturday” by weather historian David Ludlum, it reached 95 degrees or better at nearly all reporting stations, including 99 at Burlington, 100 degrees in...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
5:40 AM 8:12 PM 14 hours 1 minutes Just over a century ago on this date, in 1923, Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office in Plymouth, VT. David Ludlum, the author of the Vermont Weather Book, and expert on weather history, notes that the weather in Northfield –...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
5:24 AM 8:28 PM 15 hours 1 minutes Dusting off the records books on this date in 1850, heavy rains caused serious flooding through southern and southwestern Vermont, into the Berkshires of Massachusetts. A tropical storm tracking north from Chesapeake Bay into eastern...
