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With all this heavy weather, I would not be surprised to hear if some of you have been up all night.
Well, you'll be in good company on Friday night – the moon will be in the sky all night too. It's the only night of the month when that's it! The rest of the month, the moon spends at least some time in the sky of the day
Friday's full moon is special: it's a micromoon. A micromoon occurs when the full moon is at the farthest point on Earth – also known as the climax. Because a micromoon is farther away, it seems about 14% smaller than a supermoon and looks duller – by about 30%.
In addition to being called a micromoon, the full moon of July has some interesting names: the Full Moon Hay, Buck Moon or Thunder Moon.
Historically, the full moons took their names from the observation, and being the daughter of a farmer, I can tell you that the Full Hay Moon is aptly named! The month of July is terribly busy – not to mention the hot weather – in the hayfields. Far from fields and woods, it is also the time of year, in North America, where deer begin to grow their woods. It is from here that comes the Moon Full Buck
. Finally, the Thunder Moon: an Algonquin tribute at a time of year when spectacular storms illuminate the skies.
These are the most common names in North America for the full moon of July. I recently came across another lesser-known name, at least locally: the Moon of Hungry Ghosts. The Chinese deserve credit for this sinister name; the moon coincided with the Hungry Ghost Festival, a time when the living honor the dead by leaving food and drink to their ancestors.
Finally, I thought you could raise a glbad towards this nickname of the Moon. In medieval England, when the summer harvests approached harvest, farmers went out to celebrate with their favorite drink – mead. It was a fermented mixture of honey, malt, yeast and water.
Today farmers call it The Beer Moon.
Cindy Day is the chief meteorologist of the SaltWire network
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