Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Best moment at 4:18 PM EST over Lake Champlain — 4 captures this evening

Quality 68/100Clouds

What the AI saw

The scene shows clear post-sun or near-sunset illumination: warm pink-orange bands of light rim several layered clouds and produce a soft alpenglow above the lake. Lenticular and stratified cloud shapes pick up the warm tones and create an appealing horizontal texture, while the darker lower clouds and silhouetted shoreline provide contrast. The water reflects muted light and contributes to a calm, wintry mood. Overall it reads as a very pleasing, colorful twilight with interesting cloud structure rather than a bright, direct sun.

Conditions

Temperature: 13°F
Cloud cover: 100%
Humidity: 64%
Wind: 8 mph

overcast clouds

Sun position

Sun set toward

240° 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 4:18 PM EST

Left view, Burlington sunset on Tuesday, December 30, 2025 — Left viewThe scene shows clear post-sun or near-sunset illumination: warm pink-orange bands of light rim several layered clouds and produce a soft alpenglow above the lake. Lenticular and stratified cloud shapes pick up the warm tones and create an appealing horizontal texture, while the darker lower clouds and silhouetted shoreline provide contrast. The water reflects muted light and contributes to a calm, wintry mood. Overall it reads as a very pleasing, colorful twilight with interesting cloud structure rather than a bright, direct sun.

Right view, Burlington sunset on Tuesday, December 30, 2025 — Right viewThis image reads as blue-hour or late twilight with cool, desaturated tones dominating the sky and landscape. There is a faint hint of warmer light high on the left, but overall the palette is soft blues and grays with low color saturation and even lighting across the town and lake. The composition is attractive and serene, but the atmospheric color intensity is modest compared with a vivid sunset. It feels like a peaceful post-sunset interval rather than a dramatic sunset moment.

How the evening unfolded

Burlington sunset on Tuesday, December 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM EST — 3:59 PM ESTQuality 62/100

Burlington sunset on Tuesday, December 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM EST — 4:14 PM ESTQuality 68/100

Burlington sunset on Tuesday, December 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM EST — 4:29 PM ESTQuality 35/100