by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:21 AM 4:40 PM 9 hours and 19 minutes More than two centuries ago on this date, in 1817, snow with thunder fell, the static electricity creating a most unusual effect. In Williamstown, VT St. Elmo’s fire (a glowing discharge of static electricity) was seen...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:26 AM 4:23 PM 8 hours and 57 minutes On this date in 1990, mild weather was in the process of delivering one of the mildest January’s on record, following the coldest winter month on Vermont records, that of December 1989. Vernon had daily high temperatures above...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:21 AM 4:41 PM 9 hours and 20 minutes The famous “snow-eating” thaw of 1996 was underway on this date. Heavy snowfall from December into early January brought snow depths of 18 to 30 inches throughout the region. But a series of storms passing to the west brought...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:26 AM 4:24 PM 8 hours and 58 minutes The Great Snow of 2010 buried western VT on this date, with 2 to 3 feet of snow on this date. A storm drifting west from the Atlantic forced a persistent feed of moisture through the Champlain Valley and the western slopes of the...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:20 AM 4:42 PM 9 hours and 22 minutes This date holds its place in New England weather records as Cold Friday, after the severe blast of cold air that arrived on January 19th, 1810. Thermometers were not common, so no record of a temperature exists from Vermont,...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:26 AM 4:25 PM 8 hours and 59 minutes A tremendous arctic outbreak was at its greatest on this date in 1981. Readings were below zero throughout the day in most locations. Concord, NH was representative of southern areas with a low of -21 and a high of -2, while the...
