by FLEK Admin | Oct 14, 2023 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:04 AM Sunset: 6:08 PM Length of the day: 11 hours 1 minutes A lengthy cold snap was underway on this date in 1937. Beginning with the 12th, and lasting through the 17th, thermometers fell into the teens, severely damaging vegetation in southern portions of...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 13, 2023 | NightSky
Today: The Milky Way becomes more prominent through the Fall, stretching from northeast to southwest across the top of the sky. It is our view of the Milky Way Galaxy from the inside, looking out. The Sun is embedded in a great disc of stars, and we are looking...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 13, 2023 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:03 AM Sunset: 6:10 PM Length of the day: 11 hours 1 minutes The third in a series of early season snowfalls took place on this date in 1836, bringing snow all the way down into the valleys after the first two just dusted the mountains. Residents of Hanover,...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 12, 2023 | NightSky
Today: When Columbus landed in the Bahamas on this date in 1492, he used the North Star to determine his location. However, he mistakenly used the star Alderamin in Cepheus, and thought he landed near what is now Boston. Either tropical breezes, or an able assistant,...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 12, 2023 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 7:01 AM Sunset: 6:11 PM Length of the day: 11 hours 1 minutes Columbus landed in what is now the Bahamas on this date in 1492, and I wanted to note his meteorological connections, as he was the first European to write about a storm, known to the Guatemalan...
