Saturday, February 24, 2024

6:36 AM 5:32 PM 10 hours 1 minutes By the last week of February, arctic blasts become less and less common as the sun gains in strength daily. However cold weather was relentless one century ago, during February of 1914. And the coldest weather waited until this date...

Sunday, February 25, 2024

6:34 AM 5:33 PM 10 hours 1 minutes An interesting weather note is found in the records for this date in 1936. 3 inches of brown, dirty snow had fallen from the sky as noted in a St. Johnsbury diary, most likely due to dust storms in the Great Plains. While microscopic...

Saturday, February 10, 2024

6:57 AM 5:13 PM 10 hours 1 minutes After a mild December, temperatures have been fairly cold, without a lot of extremes. But in years that experience deep cold, they are subject to tremendous warm-ups. On this date in 1857, after some of the most severe cold known in...

Monday, February 26, 2024

6:32 AM 5:34 PM 11 hours 1 minutes A storm from the 26th to the 27th in 1869 marked the third big dumping of snow of a very snowy month. By month’s end Randolph, VT reported 37.5 inches, and Woodstock, VT totaled 40 inches. The snow in Lunenburg, VT was four...

Sunday, February 11, 2024

6:56 AM 5:14 PM 10 hours 1 minutes This date marks the average greatest depth of snow on the ground during the winter. Although this can come anywhere from December to March, more interesting is that the average ranges from early February in southern New Hampshire, to...

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

6:31 AM 5:36 PM 11 hours 1 minutes Have February’s been getting snowier? Many locations have seen their snowiest February either in 2007, 2008, or 2011, and across southern portions of VT and NH in 2015, 40 to 50 inches. One other February stands out, that of...