Monday, November 17, 2025

Today: Early risers tomorrow morning can look for the bright and blueish-white star Spica to rise in the east-southeast at 4:00 AM. Also rising in the east-southeast, about an hour later, will be the waning sliver of a crescent Moon. Following in the same line,...

November 16, 2025

Sunrise: 6:47 AM Sunset: 4:22 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 35 minutes On this date in 1927, while Vermonter’s were still very busy cleaning up from the tremendous flooding, the weather brought a very welcomed reprieve from the encroaching cold of winter. A spell...

Sunday, November 16, 2025

Today: November’s Leonid meteor shower peaks tonight, but you’ll need to stay up late to see the peak, which will occur around 1:00 AM. The Leonid shower is so-called because its shooting stars give the impression of shooting outward from the constellation...

November 15, 2025

Sunrise: 6:46 AM Sunset: 4:23 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 37 minutes The cold winter of 1933 and ’34 experienced the first of many arctic intrusions on this date in 1933. The coldest air so early in the season dropped thermometers to 9 in Burlington, only...

Saturday, November 15, 2025

Today: The eastern skies have gone to the dogs! Procyon, the star marking the Little Dog, is one of Orion’s hunting dogs, and rises at 9:30 PM. But the Great Dog comes into view a bit more than a half-hour later, as the star Sirius – the “Dog...