Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Today: For tomorrow’s Thanksgiving holiday, we celebrate the harvest and the riches of the soil. A along the northern horizon a low and level view show will show the Big Dipper. In the British Isles, it is imagined as a plough, with the bowl of the Dipper...

November 25, 2025

Sunrise: 6:59 AM Sunset: 4:16 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 17 minutes The Great Appalachian Storm was raging on this date in 1950. Intense low pressure moved from central Pennsylvania into western New York, a position that historically favors strong southeast...

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Today: Later this evening in the northwestern skies, the constellation Cygnus, the Swan is low in the northwest about 9:45 PM. It is also called the Northern Cross, in part a reference to the Southern Cross – a bright constellation seen only from the tropics...

November 24, 2025

Sunrise: 6:58 AM Sunset: 4:16 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 18 minutes On this date in 1989 record cold swept in the day after Thanksgiving to begin the coldest spell of weather on modern records. St. Johnsbury set a record at 6 below zero, while Concord, NH was...

Monday, November 24, 2025

Today: By 5:45 PM, and high in the southwest flies Aquila, The Eagle, its feathers and quills headed up by its brightest and highest star, Altair. Even higher, slightly toward the west but nearly overhead, it another feathered friend, Cygnus, The Swan; it’s head is...