It was not just an unusually warm year, 2023 was a year of extremes throughout the state, from flooding to cold snaps and heat waves By Erin Petenko/VTDigger By Erin Petenko/VTDigger, with data from National Weather Service The chart […]
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Flood waters rise again
By Jerry LeBlond Aspirations for a white Christmas evaporated early this week when coastal storm rainfall and melting snowpack swelled the White River in Rochester flooding the fields surrounding Chantreafield Farm off River Brook Drive. Staff report Heavy rain […]
Heat breaks records
By Emma Cotton/VTDigger On the heels of abnormally dry conditions, softened but not eliminated by last week’s rain, early June has brought several days of increasingly common record-breaking heat to Vermont. Swimmers flocked to lakefronts and rivers over the weekend and […]
Extreme heat advisory in effect until 8 p.m. Thursday
Staff report An extreme heat wave impacting all of Vermont is expected to break 8 p.m. Thursday. The National Weather Service in Burlington said temperatures peaked at 102 degrees, with the warmest weather between noon and 6 p.m. Thursday. The […]
Vermont’s warmest winter shifts flood risk, raises fire worries, say first responders
By Mike Faher, VTDigger.org It’s been the warmest winter on record in Vermont, with mean temperatures 5 to 10 degrees above normal and snowfall several feet below normal statewide, the National Weather Service reported at a meeting in Brattleboro Thursday, […]
For snow sports, it’s the winter of discontent
By Andrew Nemethy, VTDigger.org Vermont’s snow sports industries are having an epic winter — but not in a good way. After last year’s prodigious snows and long winter sports season, which ran up a record number of 4.7 million alpine […]