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23 August 1916. Torrington, CT. [1] 15 July 1995. Danbury, CT. Lowest Temperature. −32 °F (−36 °C) 16 February 1943. Norfolk, CT “The Ice Box of CT”.
The climate of New England varies greatly across its 500-mile (800 km) span from northern Maine to southern Connecticut. Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, and most of interior western Massachusetts have a humid continental climate (Dfb under the Köppen climate classification). In this region, the winters are long, cold, and heavy snow is common ...
The following holidays are observed by the majority of US businesses with paid time off: New Year's Day, New Year's Eve, [2] Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, the day after known as Black Friday, Christmas Eve and Christmas. There are also numerous holidays on the state and local level that are observed to varying degrees.
Get the Trumbull, CT local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. ... 80-year-old man dies trying to drive through flooded North Carolina road. The driver, Richard Walton Robinson, was ...
American students enjoying spring break at a party in Negril, Jamaica, 2009. Spring break, known variously as Easter vacation, Easter holiday, Easter break, spring vacation, mid-term break, study week, reading week, reading period, Easter week or March break, is a vacation period including Easter holidays in early Northern Hemisphere spring at universities and schools, which has been observed ...
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut were adopted in January 1639, and have been described as the first constitutional document in America. [30] The Quinnipiack Colony [31] was established by John Davenport, Theophilus Eaton, and others at New Haven in March 1638. The New Haven Colony had its own constitution called "The Fundamental Agreement ...
The U.S. state of Connecticut began as three distinct settlements of Puritans from Massachusetts and England; they combined under a single royal charter in 1663. Known as the "land of steady habits" for its political, social and religious conservatism, the colony prospered from the trade and farming of its ethnic English Protestant population.
2010–11. 2011–12. The 2010–11 North American winter was influenced by an ongoing La Niña, seeing winter storms and very cold temperatures affect a large portion of the Continental United States, even as far south as the Texas Panhandle. Notable events included a major blizzard that struck the Northeastern United States in late December ...