by FLEK Admin | Feb 8, 2024 | 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...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 8, 2024 | NightSky
Today: By 8:30 PM this evening, the “twin” stars of Gemini appear quite high in the east-southeast, two-thirds of the way up from the horizon, and ride very high across the southern skies. Pollux, a bit brighter and on the lower left, and Castor, on the...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 7, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:01 AM Sunset: 5:08 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 7 minutes One of New England’s greatest snowstorms brought eastern and southern New England 20 to 40 inches of snow, whipped into drifts of 5 to 10 feet, in the cold and snowy winter of 1978. In...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 7, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Orion is an easy target, even on a moonlit night. Tonight, the lack of moonlight might give you an opportunity to see a fainter feature of our winter Giant. Look below his three belt stars, where a fainter line marks his sword. The very end of the sword is a...
by FLEK Admin | Feb 6, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:02 AM Sunset: 5:07 PM Length of the day: 10 hours and 5 minutes On this date in 1855 severe cold was gripping the region. In Randolph, VT on the 6th the temperature ranged from -25 to a high of -18, while Hanover, NH had a mean temperature of 19 degrees...
