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THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BURLINGTON OFFERS THE FOLLOWING DATA FOR DECEMBER AS OF 2000:
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NORMAL
DECEMBER
17.3°F to 32.3°F
Average 24.8°F
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WARMEST
DECEMBER
Average 32.7°F in 1996
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COLDEST
DECEMBER
Average 7.6°F in 1989
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WARMEST
DECEMBER DAY
67°F on December 5, 1941
and December 7, 1998
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COLDEST
DECEMBER DAY
-29°F on December 29, 1933
and December 30, 1933
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NORMAL
PRECIPITATION
2.22"
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HIGHEST
PRECIPITATION
5.95 in 1973
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LOWEST
PRECIPITATION
0.31 in 1928
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MOST
PRECIPITATION
2.58”
December 4, 1950
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LEAST
PRECIPITATION
0.54"
December 29, 1967
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AVERAGE
SNOWFALL
18.3"
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MAXIMUM
SNOWFALL
56.7" in 1970
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MINIMUM
SNOWFALL
1.4 in 1912
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MOST SNOW
16.9"
December 25, 1978
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LEAST SNOW
2.6"
December 31, 1956
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 THE VERMONT WEATHER BOOK by David Ludlum (Vermont Historical Society, 1996) says of December:
“Dark December,” the apt phrase from Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, well describes the concluding month of the year in Vermont. The sun on December 21 stands at 21°33´above the southern horizon in central Vermont compared to an altitude of 69°27´on June 21, and the hours of direct sunlight decline to about nine hours a day compared to about fifteen and a half hours at the summer solstice. The solar beam at the end of December radiates about 21 percent of the energy it put forth over the Vermont countryside six months ago. Cloudiness, too, adds to the general gloomy atmosphere. Normally at Burlington, twenty-one of the thirty-one days are rated as cloudy, that is, as having more than 60 percent cloud cover. An all-time record for any month was established in December 1954 with twenty-six cloudy days.
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