September 26, 2025

Sunrise: 6:42 AM Sunset: 6:40 PM Length of the day: 11 hours and 58 minutes If there ever was a year famous in New England weather annals, it is that of 1816. And in that year on this date, the final straw came in the form of severe cold, lasting from the 26th through...

Friday, September 26, 2025

Today: Even with calendar Summer now behind us, the constellation Orion barely broaches the eastern horizon by 11:00 PM. But within a month this will happen two hours earlier, as Orion re-emerges to become a central constellation in the Winter sky, and by the first of...

September 25, 2025

Sunrise: 6:41 AM Sunset: 6:42 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 1 minutes On this date in 1950, residents of most of the northeastern U.S., from the Great Lakes to the mid-Atlantic coast east to Maine, as well as neighboring provinces of Quebec and Ontario watched...

Thursday, September 25, 2025

Today: Rising in the east-northeast at around 7:45 PM is the bright star Capella, principle star of the constellation Auriga, The Charioteer. Capella is the third brightest star that appears in the northern hemisphere. But it only appears as a single star. It really...

September 24, 2025

Sunrise: 6:40 AM Sunset: 6:44 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 4 minutes Cold spells are common during the last week of September, with the average first frosts noted at Montpelier, Newport, Readsboro, Rochester, Rutland, and St. Johnsbury all occurring between...