Thursday, March 21, 2024

6:52 AM 7:04 PM 12 hours 1 minutes Twelve years ago, March 2012 was the warmest on record for most locations. The warmest First Day of Spring saw thermometers climb to 80 or more, the earliest it has reached 80 degrees on modern record. Global warming? Perhaps,...

Saturday, April 06, 2024

6:22 AM 7:24 PM 13 hours 1 minutes On this date in 1982, a late season snow storm took on all the characteristics of a blizzard. Heavy snow was confined to southern and eastern Vermont and all of New Hampshire south into Massachusetts. Readsboro and Cavendish each...

Friday, March 22, 2024

6:50 AM 7:05 PM 12 hours 1 minutes Late winter storm’s are very much a part of early spring weather. And it was on this date in 1998 that we were shoveling and digging out of such a storm. A storm in the Ohio Valley gave way to one on the east coast, delivering...

Sunday, April 07, 2024

6:21 AM 7:25 PM 13 hours 1 minutes Record cold was noted on this date in 1982, in the wake of a late-season blizzard that whipped through with 1 to 2 feet of snow. Single number readings were widespread, dipping to 8 degrees in Cavendish and Dorset in southern...

Saturday, March 23, 2024

6:48 AM 7:06 PM 12 hours 1 minutes If you’ve March in January, you’ll have January in March, or so the old saying goes. Certainly there was cause to complain on this date in 1934, when a late season cold spell sent thermometers below zero, including 4...

Monday, April 08, 2024

6:19 AM 7:26 PM 13 hours 1 minutes April’s reputation for changeable weather is legendary, thanks in part to this wonderful quote from Mark Twain. He said the weather “gets through more business in Spring than in any other season. In spring I have counted one hundred...