September 19, 2024

Sunrise: 6:34 AM Sunset: 6:53 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 19 minutes General Martin Field, who compiled weather records over many years from Newfane, VT, noted on this date in 1827, heavy rains began, and when they let up on the 21st, 8 inches of rain had...

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Today: It’s a challenge, but if you have an unobscured and flat horizon at sunset – between about 8:15 and 8:30 – you might be able to spot the planet Venus, just south of due west, and within the constellation Virgo. Venus will dip below the horizon by around 8:45....

September 18, 2024

Sunrise: 6:33 AM Sunset: 6:55 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 22 minutes There are many notes of very smokey air throughout New England from the 10th to the 18th of September in 1908. Forest fires in Canada sent a great deal of smoke south on prevailing northwest...