Saturday, February 01, 2025

Today: February opens with this month’s meeting of our two brightest nighttime objects, Venus and the Moon. The Moon is always a Crescent when it encounters Venus, because Venus’s orbit keeps it close to the Sun. They appear one third of the way up at 5:45...

February 1, 2025

Sunrise: 7:08 AM Sunset: 5:00 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 52 minutes Just as the clock struck midnight on this date in 1920, Northfield, VT set the state record for the highest barometric reading, that of 31.14 inches. High pressure in the winter is invariably...

January 31, 2025

Sunrise: 7:09 AM Sunset: 4:59 PM Length of the day: 9 hours and 50 minutes Because the thermometer drops below zero more times in January than any other month, many of us perform that morning ritual of looking at the thermometer to check the temperature. The red...