May 28, 2026

Sunrise: 5:12 AM Sunset: 8:24 PM Length of day: 15 hours and 12 minutes On this date in 1775, according to the book, “The History of Keene”, which quoted from the Abner Sanger diary, “Toward Night comes up a Terrible Hurricane Thunder shower. Trees...

Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Today: You’ll need to pair of binoculars, but just after sunset, around 8:25 PM, you might be able to catch a fleeting glimpse of Mercury, as it sets in the northwest by 8:45. If you can glimpse it, you’ll notice a nice alignment stretching between it, Venus to...

May 27, 2026

Sunrise: 5:13 AM Sunset: 8:23 PM Length of day: 15 hours and 10 minutes One of the coldest Mays of the 20th century was capped off by a snowy northeaster in 1967. Residents of northern New England were waking up to a dusting to an inch in southern Vermont, including 2...

Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Today: A large, waxing Gibbous Moon pays a visit to the bluish-white beacon Spica as it emerges from the twilight in the south, between 8:45 and 9:00 this evening. They two will set in the west-southwest in the early morning, the Moon a few minutes before 3:00 AM, and...

May 26, 2026

Sunrise: 5:13 AM Sunset: 8:22 PM Length of day: 15 hours and 9 minutes Fourteen years ago, in 2011, a series of moisture-laden thunderstorms tracking northeast along the Rt. 2 corridor from Barre northeast to St. Johnsbury, unleashed 4 to 7 inches of rain in six...