by FLEK Admin | Feb 19, 2024 | 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...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 19, 2024 | NightSky
Today: At 7:10 this evening, looking straight up, a bright star marks the zenith, very top of the sky. Capella is the fourth brightest star we can see, though it is past its prime. Astronomers estimate it was the brightest star in the sky some 200,000 years ago....
by FLEK Admin | Feb 18, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:45 AM Sunset: 5:24 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 39 minutes The biggest storm of a snowy February came to an end on this date in 1952. The snowfall of 28 inches in Northfield brought snow levels to 40 inches on the ground. In the southern Green...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 18, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Today marks the anniversary of the discovery of Pluto. Clyde Tombaugh was examining pictures taken through the telescope at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona in January, 1930, over a period of days. One of the “stars” in the image moved while the stars remained...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 17, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:47 AM Sunset: 5:22 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 35 minutes Classic New England snow storms are often measured against the tremendous storm that struck all of New England on this date in 1958. As a storm, it wasn’t until 1993 that winter storm...
