by FLEK Admin | Oct 9, 2023 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:58 AM Sunset: 6:17 PM Length of the day: 11 hours 1 minutes Severe flooding swept through southeast Vermont and western New Hampshire, killing several people on this date in 2005. Rainfall amounts of 6 to 11 inches, the remnants of Tropical Storm Tammy,...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 8, 2023 | NightSky
Today: The Draconid Meteor Shower peaks this evening, and the absence of the Moon allows star gazers dark skies to catch this minor event, most years producing fewer than 10 per hour. Occasional bursts hundreds per hour have occurred when their parent comet,...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 8, 2023 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:56 AM Sunset: 6:18 PM Length of the day: 11 hours 1 minutes A most unusual late-season surge of summer-time warmth was just beginning on this date in 1909. Readings climbed to the upper 70s and low 80s, heading for their peak on the 10th, when Burlington...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 7, 2023 | NightSky
Today: Over the next few mornings, the pre-dawn skies host a conjunction of Leo, the Lion’s brightest star, Regulus, one third of the way up in the east-southeast by 6 o’clock, joined by the far-brighter Venus to its lower right. A waning Crescent Moon...
by FLEK Admin | Oct 7, 2023 | SunRiseSet
Sunrise: 6:55 AM Sunset: 6:20 PM Length of the day: 11 hours 1 minutes New England is hardly the place we think a lot about earthquakes, though we get a pretty good jolt now and then. The majority of our quakes are known as mid-plate quakes, resulting from stresses in...
