The snow moon will reach its peak at 6:53 a.m. MT/7:53 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 12, though the moon will appear full tonight ...

Unsurprisingly, the name of February's full moon became known as the snow moon since it rises in one of the snowiest months, on average, in the United States. Because bad weather and heavy snows made ...

This year, the Snow Moon falls on 12 February 2025 and reaches its peak at 8:35 pm in the night. A peculairty of the this full moon is that it comes shortly after a brief lunar event where the moon ...

so February's full moon is known as the snow moon due to the typically heavy snowfall which occurs in February. Moon names can also be derived from Native American, Colonial American and European ...

The Old Farmer's Almanac uses names for full moons from a number of sources, including Native American, Colonial American and European. In this case, the origin of the name is quite ...

which first began publishing names for full moons in the 1930s. Many Native American tribes in the northwestern U.S. also referred to it as the storm moon, in reference to frequent snowstorms ...

Full moon names were an integral ancient method to track the changing months and seasons, and many that are still used today came from Colonial Americans adopting Native American names into their ...