by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
5:33 AM 8:19 PM 14 hours 1 minutes Summer is the wettest season in northern New England thanks to the higher humidity available to thunderstorms. On this date in 1913 St. Johnsbury recorded its wettest 24 hours, as thunderstorms with torrential downpours filled the...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
5:34 AM 8:18 PM 14 hours 1 minutes On this date in 1883 a great aurora was seen across the northeast. This was near the peak of sunspots during the 1880s, part of the Sun’s 11 year cycle. In the current Sun’s cycle we are also near the maximum number of sunspots,...
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...
