by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
7:02 AM 4:14 PM 9 hours 1 minutes A long, heavy storm of ice and snow was winding down on this date in 1921. Cold air from the 24th to the 26th became trapped as a coastal storm pushed into cold high pressure over Canada. The icing was most severe from Massachusetts...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
7:03 AM 4:13 PM 9 hours 1 minutes Arctic gales swept into the region on this date in 1875, temperatures plunging in Newport from 32 at 7 AM to –8 below zero at 9 PM that evening. As the cold deepened the next day Burlington set a record for its coldest November...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
7:05 AM 4:13 PM 9 hours 1 minutes This month’s weather not withstanding, snow often arrives to stay in late November or early December. It was on this date in 1842 that a storm swept up the east coast in classic fashion, with a foot or more of snow in interior New...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
7:06 AM 4:13 PM 9 hours 1 minutes On this date just over 50 years ago, in 1972, a moderate snowstorm began a snowy week, with a second storm following 3 days later. Totals included 15 inches in Lebanon, NH, 16 inches in St. Johnsbury, VT and Woodstock, NH, and 19...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
7:26 AM 5:41 PM 10 hours 1 minutes Halloween is often haunted by memories of trick-or-treating in the snow, or in the cold, but before the days of various miniature cherubs dressed as their favorite hero or greatest nightmare, October’s coldest weather frightened...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
7:27 AM 5:40 PM 10 hours 1 minutes The first day of November greets us with the half-way point between fall and winter. The ancient peoples of western Europe knew this as Samhain – meaning literally “summer’s end”, but was actually their New Year. As one year...
