Sunrise: 6:57 AM
Sunset: 5:13 PM
Length of the day:
10 hours and 16 minutes
Weather patterns that create extreme periods of deep cold and snow, frequently demonstrate tremendous reversals, leading to the opposite extremes of warmth. Their timing can result in hazardous, damaging weather events. A prime example occured on this date in 1857, when, after some of the most severe cold known to this region in January of 1857, thawing rains and melting snow caused rivers to break up, with devastating ice jams and much flooding.