by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
5:17 AM 8:17 PM 15 hours 1 minutes Cold fronts can still pack a wallop this time of year, but you’d be hard pressed to find a more dramatic change than what happened this week back in 1906. The temperature soared to 92 in St. Johnsbury on the 18th, the hottest...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
5:07 AM 8:31 PM 15 hours 1 minutes Residents of northwestern and central Vermont enjoyed a quiet day 30 years ago on this date, in 1984, but clouds gathered toward dark, followed by thunderstorms that dumped up to 6 inches of rain overnight, from the 6th into the...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
5:17 AM 8:18 PM 15 hours 1 minutes The first heat wave of a hot summer was underway on this date in 1911. Temperatures warmed quickly to the 70s and 80s during the first three weeks of May. Then, starting on the 21st, temperatures reached the 90s, peaking on the 22nd...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
5:07 AM 8:32 PM 15 hours 1 minutes A very rare June snowstorm struck on this date in 1816, starting what became known as the “Year without a Summer”. According to the newspaper “The North Star” from Danville, Vermont from June of 1816, “on the night of the 7th and the...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
5:16 AM 8:19 PM 15 hours 1 minutes Heat waves are a select group in May, though getting 90 degree weather does happen about once every 4 to 5 years. The heat was still simmering in Burlington on this date in 1977. After setting a record for the month of May the day...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
5:07 AM 8:32 PM 15 hours 1 minutes On this date in 1903, the first rain in nearly 9 weeks fell, continuing for 4 days with about an inch of total rainfall. In many locations, including Burlington, no rain fell at all in the month of May. The dry weather sparked...
