by FLEK Admin | Jun 7, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:07 AM Sunset: 8:32 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 25 minutes A very rare June snowstorm struck on this date in 1816, starting what became known as the “Year without a Summer”. According to the newspaper “The North Star” from Danville, Vermont from June...
by FLEK Admin | Jun 7, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Just as full darkness settles in by 10 o’clock, look due north and half way up in the sky to find Polaris, the North Star. Now look above it, and slightly to the left, where a pair of medium bright stars represent “north stars” from a bygone...
by FLEK Admin | Jun 6, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:07 AM Sunset: 8:31 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 24 minutes Residents of northwestern and central Vermont enjoyed a quiet day 31 years ago on this date, in 1984, but clouds gathered toward dark, followed by thunderstorms that dumped up to 6 inches of...
by FLEK Admin | Jun 6, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Night owls can see a pale yellow point of light rising in the east-southeast at 2 o’clock, better seen after 3 AM, our distant planetary cousin, Saturn. Much closer, and much brighter as well as more intense in its yellow hue, Venus will rise about an...
by FLEK Admin | Jun 5, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 5:08 AM Sunset: 8:30 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 22 minutes A severe frost struck much of the northeast, midwest, and Great Lakes on this date in 1859. Crops were severely damaged in New England, with most of the corn crop forced to by cut down and...
