by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:06 AM 8:38 PM 15 hours and 32 minutes Yes, today is the first day of summer on the calendars, known also as Midsummer’s Day, though it seems like neither the first day of summer, nor the middle. Although the summer solstice marks the date when the Sun is...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:07 AM 8:38 PM 15 hours and 31 minutes Summer may be underway, but that doesn’t mean all tomatoes are automatically safe. Over a century ago on this date, in 1918, the second of two frosty mornings in a row was recorded in many of the colder valleys. St....
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:17 AM 8:17 PM 15 hours and 0 minutes Cold fronts can still pack a wallop this time of year, but you’d be hard pressed to find a more dramatic change than what happened this week back in 1906. The temperature soared to 92 in St. Johnsbury on the 18th, the...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:07 AM 8:31 PM 15 hours and 24 minutes Residents of northwestern and central Vermont enjoyed a quiet day 31 years ago on this date, in 1984, but clouds gathered toward dark, followed by thunderstorms that dumped up to 6 inches of rain overnight, from the 6th into the...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:17 AM 8:18 PM 15 hours and 1 minutes The first heat wave of a hot summer was underway on this date in 1911. Temperatures warmed quickly to the 70s and 80s during the first three weeks of May. Then, starting on the 21st, temperatures reached the 90s, peaking on the...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
5:07 AM 8:32 PM 15 hours and 25 minutes A very rare June snowstorm struck on this date in 1816, starting what became known as the “Year without a Summer”. According to the newspaper “The North Star” from Danville, Vermont from June of 1816, “on the night of the 7th...
