by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:25 AM 4:31 PM 9 hours and 6 minutes One of the most intense cold waves on modern record was in progress on this date in 1968. Subzero temperatures stretched over 5 consecutive days in Burlington resulting in the earliest freezing over of Lake Champlain on record. A...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:24 AM 4:33 PM 9 hours and 9 minutes The 10th and 11th of January, 1859 were among the coldest days of the 19th century. The temperature on the UVM campus on Professor Petty’s thermometer read -26 at 2 PM, and the intensity of the cold held thermometers below zero...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:24 AM 4:34 PM 9 hours and 10 minutes A warm, thawing rain melted a very thin covering of snow on this date in 1980, delaying the arrival of steady snow cover until the 20th, the latest on modern records. Record temperatures for this date include 52 in Montpelier, 54...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:24 AM 4:35 PM 9 hours and 11 minutes It was on this date in 1968, that the longest deep freeze on modern record began to let up. Many communities in northern New England and NY, and across southern Quebec went above zero for the first time in 5 days, including West...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:23 AM 4:36 PM 9 hours and 13 minutes A January thaw in 1934 ended on this date with a monstrous snowstorm, which turns out to be the fifth greatest snowfall in a 24 hour period for Burlington, VT. 24.2 inches piled up, and was followed by one of the coldest...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
7:23 AM 4:37 PM 9 hours and 14 minutes A special anniversary today for meteorology, but also photography, and even the realm of art, for it was on this date in 1885 that Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley took his first photo-micrograph of a snow crystal. He went on to...
