ONE MOON, MANY NAMES: The Next Full Moon Is The Snow, Storm, Hunger, Wolf or Candles Moon… | Weather Blog

The next full Moon will be midday on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, appearing opposite the Sun in Earth-based longitude at 11:57 a.m. EST. This will be on Thursday morning from China Standard Time eastward to the International Date Line. The Moon will appear full for about three days around this time, from about midnight Tuesday morning to about midnight Thursday night. The bright star appearing near the full Moon will be Regulus.

One Moon, Many Names

The Maine Farmers’ Almanac began publishing Native American names for full Moons in the 1930s and these names have become widely known and used. According to this almanac, as the full Moon in February, the tribes of what is now the northeastern United States called this the Snow Moon or the Storm Moon because of the heavy snows that fall in this season. Bad weather and heavy snowstorms made hunting difficult,…