by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:40 AM 6:44 PM 12 hours and 4 minutes Cold spells are common during the last week of September, with the average first frosts noted at Montpelier, Newport, Readsboro, Rochester, Rutland, and St. Johnsbury all occurring between today and the weekend. Of course...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:41 AM 6:42 PM 12 hours and 1 minutes On this date in 1950, residents of most of the northeastern U.S., from the Great Lakes to the mid-Atlantic coast east to Maine, as well as neighboring provinces of Quebec and Ontario watched the sun fade as a dense pall of smoke...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:42 AM 6:40 PM 11 hours and 58 minutes If there ever was a year famous in New England weather annals, it is that of 1816. And in that year on this date, the final straw came in the form of severe cold, lasting from the 26th through the 29th, with frost throughout New...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:43 AM 6:38 PM 11 hours and 55 minutes On this date in 1947 much of the northeast shivered with the coldest weather so early in the season. In the normally mild Champlain Valley, Burlington was a record 27, St. Johnsbury falling to 22. But the mountain valleys fell...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:26 AM 7:06 PM 12 hours and 40 minutes Barometers were extremely low on this date in 1960, though that was hardly what people were paying attention to. Hurricane Donna tracked north through New England, from New London, CT to Rumford, ME, placing our listening area...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
6:27 AM 7:04 PM 12 hours and 37 minutes A brief but blistering hot spell is found in the record books on this date in 1948, when thermometers soared to 92 in both St. Johnsbury and in Burlington. This was the end of a long spell of warm and dry weather, marked by a...
