by FLEK Admin | Feb 24, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:36 AM Sunset: 5:32 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 56 minutes By the last week of February, arctic blasts become less and less common as the sun gains in strength daily. However cold weather was relentless during February of 1914. And the coldest weather...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 24, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Mercury and Saturn will appear very close together just shortly after sunset, and right along the horizon, just south of west, at 6:15. With difficulty, they will be viewable only for a matter of minutes, until the pair sets at 6:30. For ideal viewing you would...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 23, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:37 AM Sunset: 5:30 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 53 minutes On this date in 1972, following a fierce snowstorm which reached blizzard proportions on the 20th, dropping some 12 to 18 inches of snow, a late-season spell of arctic cold gripped the north...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 23, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Retrograde motion of Mars ends tonight, which started late last year as the faster Earth passed Mars in our respective orbits. We are now far enough past Mars that its direct, west to east motion resumes. Forming a triangle with the bright Twin stars of Gemini,...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 22, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:39 AM Sunset: 5:29 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 50 minutes 43 years ago on this date, in 1981, temperatures were reaching the 50s and 60s during the longest, warmest spell of weather ever recorded in February. This date marked the pinnacle of the...
