by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:43 AM 7:53 PM 14 hours and 10 minutes It is not unusual to see flooding this time of year as soggy ground and remaining snow in the mountains adds to the spring rain. However, fourteen years ago, in 2011, rapid snowmelt, combined with excessive fall and spring...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:07 AM 7:35 PM 13 hours and 28 minutes In most years, maple sugaring is done by now, or nearly so, and we move on to other activities. However, following one of the most severe winters of the 18th century, the famous Long Winter of 1798-99, sugaring finally began in...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:05 AM 7:36 PM 13 hours and 31 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...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:03 AM 7:37 PM 13 hours and 34 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...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:02 AM 7:38 PM 13 hours and 36 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...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:00 AM 7:40 PM 13 hours and 40 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...
