May 21, 2025

Sunrise: 5:17 AM Sunset: 8:17 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 0 minutes Cold fronts can still pack a wallop this time of year, but you’d be hard pressed to find a more dramatic change than what happened this week back in 1906. The temperature soared to 92 in...

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Today: Saturn continues to rise a few minutes earlier each night, breaking the eastern horizon just before 3 AM tomorrow morning, although not alone, the Waning Crescent Moon having risen 30 minutes before the ringed world. As they rise a bit higher by 4...

May 20, 2025

Sunrise: 5:18 AM Sunset: 8:16 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 58 minutes Snow fell heavily on this date in 1892 in central Vermont. Strafford, VT noted 16 inches of snow through the 21st, with up to 28 inches on the higher elevations. North Bridgewater had 30...

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Today: On this date in 1910, the Earth passed through the tail of Halley’s Comet, an event that spawned any number of reactions, from taking “Comet Pills” to ward off the noxious vapors, to predictions of the end of the world. The dangers were...

May 19, 2025

Sunrise: 5:19 AM Sunset: 8:15 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 56 minutes On this date in 1883, Vermont experienced its worst forest fire in the state’s history in the vicinity of Groton. And looking back over 200 years ago in 1780, smoke from fires was...