by FLEK Admin | Oct 5, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:53 AM Sunset: 6:24 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 31 minutes Going back 60 years ago, to 1965, following some unseasonably hot weather in late September, the weather turned shockingly winter-like. Temperatures remained in the 30s, while snow dusted the...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 4, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Autumn has not yet discouraged the Summer Triangle, just given us a different view. Seen crossing overhead near midnight in the summer, it now appears overhead in the evening. Look for the faintest of the three stars, Deneb, close to the zenith this evening,...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 4, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:52 AM Sunset: 6:26 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 34 minutes The earliest heavy snowfall on modern record dumped up to 20 inches across the higher elevations of southwest Vermont, including 18 inches in Pownal on this date, in 1987. The snow was...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 3, 2025 | NightSky
Today: A brightening Gibbous Moon in the south renders the fainter constellations more of a challenge. Instead, look low in the northeast by 8 o’clock, where one of the great stars of the heavens edges higher into the north and northeast. Capella is among the...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 3, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:50 AM Sunset: 6:27 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 37 minutes Early snowfalls are not always the signal of a tough winter on the way. Three inches of snow fell on this date in 1780 in Pomfret according to Jonathan Carpenter’s diary, and while the...
