Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Best moment at 5:14 PM EST over Lake Champlain — 4 captures this evening

Quality 18/100Snow

What the AI saw

This view likewise features an overcast, light-polluted sky that is uniformly muted brown-orange with scattered city lights and snowy rooftops below. There is slightly more contrast and visible detail in the cityscape and some faint horizon glow, but it lacks the saturated purples, pinks, or layered gradients of genuine post-sunset twilight. The scene is visually interesting as a snowy nightscape but does not show a sunset or richly colored twilight.

Conditions

Temperature: 26°F
Cloud cover: 100%
Humidity: 92%
Wind: 5 mph

snow

Sun position

Sun set toward

244° WSW

Far southwest - Winter sunset

Burlington (44.48°N) — sunsets sweep from southwest in winter to northwest in summer along the Lake Champlain shore.

Both camera angles at 5:14 PM EST

Left view, Burlington sunset on Tuesday, December 2, 2025 — Left viewThe scene shows a heavy, low overcast with a uniform orange-brown glow from city lights reflected off clouds and falling snow rather than any natural sunset colors. Snow on the trees and ground is visible and local streetlights create warm highlights, but there is no clear color gradient, alpenglow, or pink/purple twilight tones. Overall the atmosphere reads as nighttime with light pollution and snow, not a visible sunset or evocative post-sunset twilight.

Right view, Burlington sunset on Tuesday, December 2, 2025 — Right viewThis view likewise features an overcast, light-polluted sky that is uniformly muted brown-orange with scattered city lights and snowy rooftops below. There is slightly more contrast and visible detail in the cityscape and some faint horizon glow, but it lacks the saturated purples, pinks, or layered gradients of genuine post-sunset twilight. The scene is visually interesting as a snowy nightscape but does not show a sunset or richly colored twilight.

How the evening unfolded

Burlington sunset on Tuesday, December 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM EST — 5:18 PM ESTQuality 9/100

Burlington sunset on Tuesday, December 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM EST — 5:29 PM ESTQuality 9/100

Burlington sunset on Tuesday, December 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM EST — 5:44 PM ESTQuality 8/100