March 22, 2025

Sunrise: 6:50 AM Sunset: 7:05 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 15 minutes The first days of spring can easily revert to their winter habits. Last year, 2024 delivered the second heavy snowstorm of the month, dumping 1 to 2 feet of snow across most of VT and NH....

Saturday, March 22, 2025

Today: Settling into the northwest as evening descends, the Queen of the heavens, Cassiopeia, remains well placed for viewing, about one third of the way above the horizon. Her W-shaped pattern of 5 stars pivots around the North Star, and each spring looks more and...

March 21, 2025

Sunrise: 6:52 AM Sunset: 7:04 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 12 minutes Thirteen years ago, March 2012 was the warmest on record for most locations. The warmest First Day of Spring saw thermometers climb to 80 or more, the earliest it has reached 80 degrees on...

Friday, March 21, 2025

Today: By 2:30 AM, early Saturday morning, a waning Gibbous Moon climbs into the southeast, and will spend the rest of the night chasing the red star Antares, the “heart” of the Scorpion. The pair slides low through the southern skies, cresting due south...

March 20, 2025

Sunrise: 6:53 AM Sunset: 7:03 PM Length of the day: 12 hours and 10 minutes Like something out of modern-day politics, the election of Thomas Jefferson in March 1801, the first change in party leadership in the U.S., became a scapegoat, blaming Jefferson for the...