Skywatch Almanac Weather Blog
September Weather
Weather almost always takes a back seat to the harvest of the fields and gardens, as well as the blaze of foliage by late in the month. Yet the same decreasing daylight that signals plants to ripen their fruit, and triggers chemical changes in the leaves to stop making green ...
August Weather
If summer can be said to be fading in August, it does so with grace and composure. The days remain warm and hazy, and often muggy. Nights are longer, but rarely cool. And the morning fog settles into the river valleys like a gossamer veil. Thunderstorms remain the most common ...
July Weather
Even though the length of the day and the height of the sun are past their maximum, July is most often the warmest month of summer. Early in July there is just enough cool air, chilled over the last ice and snow fields in eastern Canada, to drive a few ...
June Weather
June is bustin' out all over..." according to Rogers and Hammerstein, and the weather rarely disappoints this month. Along with being one of the sunniest months, it is also one of the wettest over northern and mountain sections of Vermont and New Hampshire. This is not a contradiction, but an ...
May Weather
Spring gives everything a little more "bounce" during May, as life begins anew with greater enthusiasm than in any other month. Yet the swift transition is only possible because the gap from late chills to early heat is so narrow. Mountains retain their last snow, and may even be coated ...
April Weather
April seems to be a matter of expectations versus reality. Often the conclusion is that April is fickle, as though we could attach some personality trait to something as arbitrary as a period of time that we call a month. As though our expectation of warmth should BE reality! Winter ...
March Weather
Although the arrival of spring just about guarantees disappointment, the prevalence of mud, and steam rising from the sugar houses offers two additional seasons which more accurately capture the crusty end of winter. The sugaring season takes advantage of the strengthening sun and the remnants of winter to send thermometers ...
February Weather
Each February brings out perhaps the best and the worst in the realm of weather folklore. Various weather proverbs and sayings still pepper our conversations about what the weather has done, or the prospects for what it will do. But the centuries of honest efforts to select out those pieces ...
January Weather
January is the heart of winter. It is the coldest and snowiest month on the average, although it does not hold the record for the all-time snowiest month, nor the coldest month. January’s consistency is its claim, with any thawing rare, and very few instances of a lack of snow. ...
