March 9, 2026

Sunrise: 7:13 AM Sunset: 6:49 PM Length of day: 11 hours and 36 minutes For those who have had enough of winter, or perhaps enough of this sort of winter, today is the day you’ve been waiting for. March 9th marks the end of the 91 coldest days of the year on...

Monday, March 09, 2026

Today: By 2:30 AM tomorrow, a waning Gibbous Moon climbs into the southeast, and will spend the night seemingly towing a red star just behind it. This is Antares, the “heart” of the Scorpion. The pair slides low through the southern skies, cresting due...

March 8, 2026

Sunrise: 7:15 AM Sunset: 6:48 PM Length of day: 11 hours and 33 minutes In spite of a mild winter, severe winter cold made its brief and only visit on this date in 1913. Temperatures fell to -23 in St. Johnsbury, and -36 in Bloomfield, the coldest March temperature on...

Sunday, March 08, 2026

Today: Daylight Savings Time begins today, as we move the clocks ahead one hour, making the sunrise and sunset an hour later. There is actually a connection to astronomy, as time used to be “local”, based on the Sun’s position being due south at...