April 18, 2026

Sunrise: 6:02 AM Sunset: 7:38 PM Length of day: 13 hours and 36 minutes Almost 30 years ago, April of 1996 was a very snowy one across the higher elevations of New York and northern New England. On this date Peru, VT watched another seven inches of snow pile up, with...

April 17, 2026

Sunrise: 6:03 AM Sunset: 7:37 PM Length of day: 13 hours and 34 minutes An interesting weather week was finishing up on this date in 1976. It started with an inch or two of snow on Monday. But by the 17th a heat wave that developed in the middle of the country headed...

Friday, April 17, 2026

Today: The steely blue star rising in the north-northeast, low but due northeast at 10:00 PM, is Vega, from the German “Wega”, and from the Arabic “Al Wika”, the “swooping or diving eagle”. In modern times it is the brightest star...

Thursday, April 16, 2026

Today: Due south this evening at 9:15 PM, the brightest star in Leo, the Lion, Regulus reigns above a large but much less prominent constellation, that of the Water Snake, named Hydra. The snake’s head appears as a collection of stars half-way between Regulus,...

April 16, 2026

Sunrise: 6:05 AM Sunset: 7:36 PM Length of day: 13 hours and 31 minutes On this date in 1992, a second snow storm followed a record cold spell to top off the winter season, as it were. 4 to 8 inches of snow fell throughout the region, but in the higher terrain in the...