by FLEK Admin | Jan 22, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:18 AM Sunset: 4:46 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 28 minutes Going way back in the records, we find on this date in 1906 we were in the midst of a tremendous January thaw. Temperatures reached the 50s and 60s from the 20th to the 23rd, Burlington...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 21, 2024 | NightSky
Today: The “Winter Diamond” of four dazzling stars sits in the southeast this evening, featuring Betelgeuse at the top, its orange hue due to its tremendous size causing it to cool. The lowest star is the brightest, Sirius, the Dog Star. The other dog...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 21, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:19 AM Sunset: 4:45 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 26 minutes January thaws are always a mixed blessing. Naturally the skiers don’t find as much pleasure and delight as they would with a fresh foot of powder, and as our recent thaw demonstrated, rain...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 20, 2024 | NightSky
Today: As the waxing Moon progresses to the east, away from its companion a few nights ago, Jupiter, now well to the right, look below the Moon in the fading twilight after 5:15 PM, where the red star Aldebaran emerges, halfway up in the east-southeast, and climbing...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 20, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:19 AM Sunset: 4:44 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 25 minutes 30 years ago, the first of two severe cold spells brought record cold on this date in 1994. Following a heavy snowstorm of 10 to 20 inches on the 18th, arctic air settled in over the fresh,...
