August 17, 2025

Sunrise: 5:56 AM Sunset: 7:52 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 56 minutes On this date in 1955, Burlington experienced its heaviest 24 hour rainfall up to that time, of 3.59 inches, part of its wettest August. However, this record was broken in 1998, when 3.62...

Sunday, August 17, 2025

Today: The Andromeda Galaxy is the only distant galaxy we can see with our own eyes. In the next few nights look in the northeast, just below the Milky Way, and about one third of the way up from the horizon near 9:15 PM EDT. It appears as a small, oval smudge of...

August 16, 2025

Sunrise: 5:55 AM Sunset: 7:54 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 59 minutes Bennington Battle Day is rather infamous for the role which weather played in an American victory. Heavy rains on this date inn 1777 delayed the beginning of the battle, which was enough time...

Saturday, August 16, 2025

Today: Just after 10:30 this evening, the Half Moon climbs into the east-northeast. As the Moon climbs higher in the hours after midnight, take note of the patch of faint stars struggling to be seen just above our celestial neighbor, known as the Seven Sisters, or the...

August 15, 2025

Sunrise: 5:54 AM Sunset: 7:55 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 1 minutes The second of three August heat waves was still going on this date in 1947. Temperatures remained above 70 degrees at night for three days in Burlington, while afternoons reached the mid 90s....