Sunday, January 11, 2026

Best moment at 4:29 PM EST over Lake Champlain — 2 captures this evening

Quality 66/100Snow

What the AI saw

The left image clearly shows the sun sitting on or just above the horizon behind a low bank of clouds, producing warm golden alpenglow on the underside of the larger cloud deck. Rich warm tones and strong sidelighting pick out cloud texture and create visible reflections and specular highlights on the water, with dark silhouetted foreground trees adding compositional contrast. Lens flare and the dramatic cloud layering lend energy to the scene, making it a striking, late‑day sunset moment rather than a muted twilight.

Conditions

Temperature: 33°F
Cloud cover: 100%
Humidity: 79%
Wind: 14 mph

light snow

Sun position

Sun set toward

241° 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 4:29 PM EST

Left view, Burlington sunset on Sunday, January 11, 2026 — Left viewThe left image clearly shows the sun sitting on or just above the horizon behind a low bank of clouds, producing warm golden alpenglow on the underside of the larger cloud deck. Rich warm tones and strong sidelighting pick out cloud texture and create visible reflections and specular highlights on the water, with dark silhouetted foreground trees adding compositional contrast. Lens flare and the dramatic cloud layering lend energy to the scene, making it a striking, late‑day sunset moment rather than a muted twilight.

Right view, Burlington sunset on Sunday, January 11, 2026 — Right viewThe right image reads as late‑day/post‑sunset twilight with a cool blue gradient across the sky and only a faint warm rim lighting the undersides of upper clouds. Cloud layers are nicely textured and the distant hills and lake are softly silhouetted, but the color palette is muted compared with a vivid sunset — mostly subtle blues and pale gold with little pink or purple. The scene is calm and atmospheric, pleasant but not highly dramatic or colorful.

How the evening unfolded

Burlington sunset on Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 4:18 PM EST — 4:18 PM ESTQuality 52/100