by FLEK Admin | Apr 20, 2026 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:58 AM Sunset: 7:41 PM Length of day: 13 hours and 43 minutes Spring is obviously not a smooth progression forward, but is fraught with set backs, such as the heavy, wet snowstorm that hit on this date in 1953. Most lower elevations experienced a cold rain,...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 20, 2026 | NightSky
Today: Just after the sun has set, at around 7:45 PM, Venus, will appear low in west. Venus is the brightest of all the planets in the night sky, bright enough to muscle through a lot of twilight. As the twilight fades its apparent brightness will increase, but it...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 19, 2026 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:00 AM Sunset: 7:40 PM Length of day: 13 hours and 40 minutes A rare April heat wave was climaxing on this date during the Bicentennial year of the United States, 1976. Thermometers reached mid-summer levels, including 90 degrees in Montpelier and St....
by FLEK Admin | Apr 19, 2026 | NightSky
Today: In the west at around 8:30 PM. the waxing Crescent Moon becomes brighter in the fading twilight. The emerging Jupiter appears high in the west-southwest. Almost straight to the Moon’s left in the bright star Aldebaran, and to its left Betelgeuse, in...
by FLEK Admin | Apr 18, 2026 | NightSky
Today: Barely past new, the barest of a crescent Moon will follow the setting sun toward the horizon in the west-northwest. Appearing shortly after, barely above to the Moon’s left, will Venus, and above Venus will be the Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters. Although...
