by FLEK Admin | Jan 3, 2024 | NightSky
Today: One of the most prolific meteor showers of the year often goes unnoticed by northern observers. The Quadrantid Meteor Shower produces as many as 100 meteors per hour, but only during a short window, this year midnight until 6:00 AM. The bright Last Quarter Moon...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 3, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:26 AM Sunset: 4:24 PM Length of the day: 8 hours and 58 minutes Fourteen years ago, the Great Snow of 2010 buried western VT with 2 to 3 feet of snow on this date. A storm drifting west from the Atlantic forced a persistent feed of moisture through the...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:26 AM Sunset: 4:23 PM Length of the day: 8 hours and 57 minutes On this date in 1990, mild weather was in the process of delivering one of the mildest January’s on record, following the coldest winter month on Vermont records, that of December 1989. Vernon...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 2, 2024 | NightSky
Today: Today the Earth is at perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun, measuring some 147,054,707 km, or 91,375,559 miles. That “slightly” nearer Sun reflects off a waning Moon as it rises late this evening, about 11:15 PM, just one day from its Last...
by FLEK Admin | Jan 1, 2024 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:26 AM Sunset: 4:22 PM Length of the day: 8 hours and 56 minutes The coldest January of the modern era in most of northern New England didn’t waste any time getting started on this date in 1970. Following the tremendous post-Christmas storm, arctic air...
