Saturday, February 14, 2026

Today: By 9:00 PM this evening, the “twin” stars of Gemini appear quite high in the 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 upper...

February 14, 2026

Sunrise: 6:51 AM Sunset: 5:18 PM Length of day: 10 hours and 27 minutes The St. Valentine’s Day Blizzard swept across the region on this date in 2007, with the deepest snowfall region-wide since 1993. A Nor’easter tracked from south of Long Island into the...

Friday, February 13, 2026

Today: About one quarter of the way up, at around 6:10 PM, you’ll find the bluish star Deneb squarely in the northwest. Deneb in the 14th-brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere. Such a ranking is impressive considering how far away Deneb is. It’s so...

February 13, 2026

Sunrise: 6:53 AM Sunset: 5:17 PM Length of day: 10 hours and 24 minutes We were on the edge of the biggest arctic outbreak on record in the continental US on this date in 1899, so severe that below zero readings reached all the way to northern Florida! Here, a storm...