March 21, 2026

Sunrise: 6:52 AM Sunset: 7:04 PM Length of day: 12 hours and 12 minutes Fourteen years ago, March 2012 was the warmest on record for most locations. The warmest First Day of Spring saw thermometers climb to 80 or more, the earliest it has reached 80 degrees on modern...

Saturday, March 21, 2026

Today: Orion is an easy target, even on a moonlit night. Tonight, the lack of moonlight might give you an opportunity to see a fainter feature of our winter Giant. Look below his three belt stars, where a fainter line marks his sword. The very end of the sword is a...

March 20, 2026

Sunrise: 6:53 AM Sunset: 7:03 PM Length of day: 12 hours and 10 minutes Like something out of modern-day politics, the election of Thomas Jefferson in March 1801, the first change in party leadership in the U.S., became a scapegoat, blaming Jefferson for the...