by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
5:41 AM 7:54 PM 14 hours 1 minutes Each May from 1812 to 1817 featured a snowstorm. On this date in 1812, the first in this series of cold, backwards Mays began with the following comments from the Rev. William Bentley of Salem, MA, “Not a flower to be seen this...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
5:21 AM 8:13 PM 14 hours 1 minutes The spring of 1977 was warm and dry. On this date thermometers headed for the upper 80s and low 90s, setting a record in Burlington at 90 degrees, reaching 89 in Cornwall, Rutland, and South Hero. This started a long stretch of very...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
6:05 AM 7:36 PM 13 hours 1 minutes On this date in 1992, a second snow storm followed a record cold spell to top off the winter season, as it were. 4 to 8 inches of snow fell throughout the region, but in the higher terrain in the north, snow cover had not completely...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
6:03 AM 7:37 PM 13 hours 1 minutes An interesting weather week was finishing up on this date in 1976. It started with an inch or two of snow on Monday. But by the 17th a heat wave that developed in the middle of the country headed east, pushing temperatures into the...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
6:02 AM 7:38 PM 13 hours 1 minutes Almost 30 years ago, April of 1996 was a very snowy one across the higher elevations of New York and northern New England. On this date Peru, VT watched another seven inches of snow pile up, with 15 inches at the base lodge at Jay...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
6:00 AM 7:40 PM 13 hours 1 minutes A rare April heat wave was climaxing on this date during the Bicentennial year of the United States, 1976. Thermometers reached mid-summer levels, including 90 degrees in Montpelier and St. Johnsbury, 91 in Burlington, and 97 in...
