by FLEK Admin | Feb 21, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:41 AM Sunset: 5:28 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 47 minutes The longest siege of arctic weather on modern records finally ended on this date in 1979. West Burke and Enosburg Falls recorded 18 straight mornings of below zero temperatures, dropping as...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 21, 2025 | NightSky
Today: George Washington’s actual birthday (not the holiday) would have seen the same stars in the same places in 1732, though the planets would have been different. Thanks to modern computer calculations, we know that Venus and Saturn were amazingly close in...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 20, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:42 AM Sunset: 5:26 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 44 minutes February of 1934 is the coldest February, and the second coldest month on record. Cold weather is most often dry, however on this date in 1934, the only significant snowfall of the month...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 20, 2025 | NightSky
Today: Night owls can see the Moon, just one day past its Last Quarter, rise in the southeast near 2:30 AM tomorrow morning. Just to its upper left will appear the red star Antares, the brightest star within the constellation Scorpius. As they climb higher, though...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 19, 2025 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:44 AM Sunset: 5:25 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 41 minutes It was on this date in 1972 blizzard conditions swept all of northern New England as a powerful nor’easter passed over Cape Cod, raking the coastal sections of New England with winds...