October 12, 2025

Sunrise: 7:01 AM Sunset: 6:11 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 10 minutes Columbus landed in what is now the Bahamas on this date in 1492, and I wanted to note his meteorological connections, as he was the first European to write about a storm, known to the...

Saturday, October 11, 2025

Today: If you’re up at midnight tonight, you can view quite a jubilee of bright bodies in the east-northeast. This will center upon the Waning Gibbous Moon, surrounded by Capella to its top left, Aldebaran to it top right, Betelgeuse to it lower right, and the...

October 11, 2025

Sunrise: 7:00 AM Sunset: 6:13 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 13 minutes October and November are frequented by extended intervals of warm weather, sometimes called “Gossamer Summer”. Unlike other times of the year, these spells will set records for...

Friday, October 10, 2025

Today: Capella, the fourth brightest star in the northern skies, appears low in the north-northeast by 8:30 PM, climbing to one quarter of the way up, in the northeast, by 9:30 PM. The Moon, now 3 days past Full, shines brightly as it rises near the same time, but...

October 10, 2025

Sunrise: 6:59 AM Sunset: 6:15 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 16 minutes One of the more famous weather events in early New England history transpired on this date in 1804. Known as the Snow Hurricane, perhaps the greatest early season snow in northwestern New...