April 28, 2025

Sunrise: 5:46 AM Sunset: 7:51 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 5 minutes April’s hottest weather of historical record was driving the mercury into the 80s and a few low 90s throughout interior New England and New York state on this date in 1990. The heat was very...

Monday, April 28, 2025

Today: Barely past new, the barest of a crescent Moon will follow the setting sun toward the horizon in the west-northwest. Appearing shortly after, above the Moon, will be the Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters. Although they are faint, and not easy to see in the fading...

April 27, 2025

Sunrise: 5:47 AM Sunset: 7:49 PM Length of the day: 14 hours and 2 minutes Residents throughout northern New York and northern New England woke up to a mid-winter’s scene on this date in 1874. The heaviest snow storm of the snowiest April on record dropped 15 inches...

Sunday, April 27, 2025

Today: Due south this evening at 8:35 PM, the brightest star in Leo, the Lion, Regulus reigns above a large but much less prominent constellation, that of the Water Snake, named Hydra. The snake’s head appears as a collection of stars half-way between Regulus,...

April 26, 2025

Sunrise: 5:49 AM Sunset: 7:48 PM Length of the day: 13 hours and 59 minutes The Passumpsic Valley was recovering from a flood on this date in 1866, which took out 4 bridges between Lyndonville and St. Johnsbury. But records from nearby Lancaster, NH and Lunenburg, VT...