Sunrise: 6:56 AM
Sunset: 6:18 PM
Length of the day:
11 hours and 22 minutes
A most unusual late-season surge of summer-time warmth was just beginning on this date in 1909. Readings climbed to the upper 70s and low 80s, heading for their peak on the 10th, when Burlington topped out at 81, and St. Johnsbury set the state record for October at a summer-like 92 degrees.