January 21, 2025

Sunrise: 7:19 AM Sunset: 4:45 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 26 minutes January thaws are always a mixed blessing.  Naturally the skiers don’t find as much pleasure and delight as they would with a fresh foot of powder, and as our recent thaw demonstrated, rain...

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Today: Take a look below the feet of Orion, where a relative unknown constellation appears – Lepus, the Hare. At 9:15 PM, when Orion and the Hare are due south, look below Orion’s feet for the face of Lepus, looking to the left, with faint, tallish ears...

January 20, 2025

Sunrise: 7:19 AM Sunset: 4:44 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 25 minutes 31 years ago, the first of two severe cold spells brought record cold on this date in 1994. Following a heavy snowstorm of 10 to 20 inches on the 18th, arctic air settled in over the fresh,...