by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
7:06 AM 6:54 PM 11 hours 1 minutes Heavy, wet snow and strong winds made a mess of things on this date in 1962. After 5 inches of snow, strong south winds gusting to 81 mph in Bennington changed snow to rain, and knocked down trees and power lines. Farther north the...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
7:04 AM 6:55 PM 11 hours 1 minutes On this date in 1984 one of the heaviest snowfalls on record was coming to an end. Peru, VT set a state record for the greatest snowfall in 24 hours with 38 inches. St. Johnsbury’s total of 23.5 inches was the second deepest...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
7:03 AM 6:56 PM 11 hours 1 minutes Beware the Ides of March…not some astrological prediction or vision of fate. Instead, we are on the cusp of the season of spring – a season capable of just about anything! On this date in 1972, late winter was making up...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
7:01 AM 6:58 PM 11 hours 1 minutes Although some years winter still has the upper hand, on this date in 1990, spring was well underway. Muddy roads and rapidly melting snow were under foot, while the sunny skies sent thermometers soaring into the 70s and 80s....
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
6:27 AM 5:38 PM 11 hours 1 minutes The third of three heavy snowfalls occurred on this date in 1804. Yale University President John Day, likely relying on press reports, noted 4 to 6 feet of snow on the ground throughout New England in his weather journal. This heavy...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
6:59 AM 6:59 PM 12 hours 1 minutes It is St. Patrick’s Day, and not the weather, that usually brings green to our part of the world. In an average year snow cover is now gone from the Champlain Valley and the lower elevations of the southern counties of Vermont...
