October 19, 2025

Sunrise: 7:10 AM Sunset: 6:00 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 50 minutes One of October’s longest and warmest spells of Gossamer Summer was drawing to a hazy, stagnant close on this date in 1947. For the fourth day in a row, the thermometer reached or exceeded 80...

Sunday, October 19, 2025

Today: The Milky Way becomes more prominent through the Fall, stretching from northeast to southwest across the top of the sky. It is our view of the Milky Way Galaxy from the inside, looking out. The Sun is embedded in a great disc of stars, and we are looking...

October 18, 2025

Sunrise: 7:09 AM Sunset: 6:01 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 52 minutes On this date in 1783, the second tropical storm system of the month was close enough to bring heavy precipitation, but far enough east to draw cold air from the north into its circulation....

Saturday, October 18, 2025

Today: The delay in the sunrise until after 7 o’clock means you don’t have to get up quite so early to enjoy an eye-catching display of the very slender waning Crescent Moon to the right of the brilliant Venus, rising just before 6 o’clock, and...

October 17, 2025

Sunrise: 7:08 AM Sunset: 6:03 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 55 minutes “Early winter is surely winter” as the old adage goes. A British-led Mohawk raiding party attacked Royalton, VT on this date in 1780, with mid-winter conditions, including 8 inches...