July 3, 2025

Sunrise: 5:11 AM Sunset: 8:37 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 26 minutes Dr. Hiram Cutting of Lunenburg, VT recorded many interesting weather events, including the following from Victory, VT on this date in 1842. A very strong and apparently noisy tornado swept...

Wednesday, July 02, 2025

Today: With no Moonlight to compete with tonight, the two brightest stars in our summer skies – Arcturus, high in the south, and Vega, high in the east – guide you to a much fainter star group, Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown. Look one third of the way from...

July 2, 2025

Sunrise: 5:11 AM Sunset: 8:38 PM Length of the day: 15 hours and 27 minutes Tornadoes are a rare part of the variety of weather that makes it so interesting here, but they do occur. A note from John Hayward’s “A Gazatteer of Vermont” indicates on this date in 1833, a...

Tuesday, July 01, 2025

Today: Draco, the Dragon is not as well known as its neighbors – the Big and Little Dippers, or Big and Little Bears – but it is a beautiful pattern to find in the sky. Look between the two Dippers to see a thin line of faint stars that hooks half-way...