Snow Moon, Hunger Moon, Trapper’s Moon, February Full Moon

February Full Moon, photo by Kevin’s Stuff

Tonight is February’s full moon. The Old Farmer’s Almanac says that Full Snow Moon was the common name of February’s full moon:

Since the heaviest snow usually falls during this month, native tribes of the north and east most often called February’s full Moon the Full Snow Moon. Some tribes also referred to this Moon as the Full Hunger Moon, since harsh weather conditions in their areas made hunting very difficult.

Colonial Americans knew it as the Trapper’s Moon. Some other names from the Moon Names page are Budding Moon (Chinese), Moon of Ice (Celtic), Storm Moon (Medieval English), Little Famine Moon (Choctaw), and the Moon of the Raccoon or Moon When Trees Pop (Dakotah Sioux).

Check this out on black and in Kevin’s The Moon slideshow.