Thursday, February 5, 2026

Best moment at 5:59 PM EST over Lake Champlain — 7 captures this evening

Quality 76/100Clouds

What the AI saw

This image captures a vivid post-sunset twilight with richer orange and pink hues along the horizon and deeper blue-violet higher in the sky. Wispy, layered cirrus clouds add texture and motion to the gradient, and the water and city lights in the foreground enhance the scene’s atmosphere with reflective highlights. The color saturation and cloud structure make this frame noticeably more dramatic and visually engaging than the left image. It reads as a beautiful, classic after-sunset sky with strong compositional interest.

Conditions

Temperature: 13°F
Cloud cover: 99%
Humidity: 73%
Wind: 3 mph

overcast clouds

Sun position

Sun set toward

246° 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 5:59 PM EST

Left view, Burlington sunset on Thursday, February 5, 2026 — Left viewThis scene shows clear post-sunset twilight with a warm orange band hugging the distant mountains and a cool blue gradient filling the upper sky. Thin, low clouds and contrails pick up subtle warm tones, while the lake reflects the fading light in soft, silvery ribbons. The silhouetted ridgeline and dark foreground trees provide strong contrast that emphasizes the calm, understated color. Overall it’s a peaceful, visually pleasing afterglow rather than a dramatic, high-intensity sunset.

Right view, Burlington sunset on Thursday, February 5, 2026 — Right viewThis image captures a vivid post-sunset twilight with richer orange and pink hues along the horizon and deeper blue-violet higher in the sky. Wispy, layered cirrus clouds add texture and motion to the gradient, and the water and city lights in the foreground enhance the scene’s atmosphere with reflective highlights. The color saturation and cloud structure make this frame noticeably more dramatic and visually engaging than the left image. It reads as a beautiful, classic after-sunset sky with strong compositional interest.

How the evening unfolded

Burlington sunset on Thursday, February 5, 2026 at 4:44 PM EST — 4:44 PM ESTQuality 58/100

Burlington sunset on Thursday, February 5, 2026 at 4:59 PM EST — 4:59 PM ESTQuality 60/100

Burlington sunset on Thursday, February 5, 2026 at 5:14 PM EST — 5:14 PM ESTQuality 76/100

Burlington sunset on Thursday, February 5, 2026 at 5:18 PM EST — 5:18 PM ESTQuality 72/100

Burlington sunset on Thursday, February 5, 2026 at 5:29 PM EST — 5:29 PM ESTQuality 75/100

Burlington sunset on Thursday, February 5, 2026 at 5:44 PM EST — 5:44 PM ESTQuality 66/100