by FLEK Admin | Feb 10, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:57 AM Sunset: 5:13 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 16 minutes Weather patterns that create extreme periods of deep cold and snow, frequently demonstrate tremendous reversals, leading to the opposite extremes of warmth. Their timing can result in...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 10, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Brilliant moonlight will hamper stargazers this evening, but the trio of bright stars marking Orion’s Belt should be easy to spot, due south in the evenings near 8:10 PM. The star on the left, Alnitak, is actually a triplet of stars, the two primary stars...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 9, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:58 AM Sunset: 5:11 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 13 minutes On this date in 1969, heavy snow was piling up, driven by strong winds, the first of two tremendous snowstorms that month. 20 inches was measured in Bethlehem and Rumney, NH, while Vernon, VT...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 9, 2025 | NightSky
Today: At around 6:30 PM, and about halfway up in the east-southeast appears the Moon and Mars. Very close together and in the heart of the Gemini Twins. The Twins are oriented horizontally, with their respective heads, the stars Pollux (below) and Castor (above), to...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 8, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:00 AM Sunset: 5:10 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 10 minutes Tremendously cold air enveloped the region on this date in 1861, perhaps the coldest 24 hours in the 19th century. Temperatures fell throughout the 7th, bottoming out on the morning of the 8th...