March 8, 2026

Sunrise: 7:15 AM Sunset: 6:48 PM Length of day: 11 hours and 33 minutes In spite of a mild winter, severe winter cold made its brief and only visit on this date in 1913. Temperatures fell to -23 in St. Johnsbury, and -36 in Bloomfield, the coldest March temperature on...

Sunday, March 08, 2026

Today: Daylight Savings Time begins today, as we move the clocks ahead one hour, making the sunrise and sunset an hour later. There is actually a connection to astronomy, as time used to be “local”, based on the Sun’s position being due south at...

March 7, 2026

Sunrise: 6:17 AM Sunset: 5:46 PM Length of day: 11 hours and 29 minutes The second heavy snowfall in a week dumped 10 to 20 inches of snow through northern New England on this date in 1971, part of the snowiest winter of the 20th century. Snow depths on the ground...