A full Buck/Thunder supermoon over Toronto tonight

TORONTO, July 13, 2022 – Tonight if things clear up, Torontonians will be able to see another full ‘supermoon’ rise above the city’s eastern skies at 9:34 pm.

That’s right, just after the sun sets, this full super moon (brighter and closer than usual), known in July as the ‘Buck’ moon. According to the Farmers Almanac, the Algonquin tribes called July’s full moon, the Buck Moon. This is because early summer is normally when the new antlers of buck deer push out of their foreheads in a fuzzy fur coating. They also called this the Thunder Moon because of early summer’s frequent thunderstorms.

The July full moon is referred to as the Hay moon in Europe inspired by haymaking season, while Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains, call it the Guru Full Moon (Guru Purnima), celebrated as a time for clearing the mind and honouring the spiritual master.

As mentioned last month, “The common definition of a supermoon is any full Moon that is at a distance of at least 90% of perigee (which is the point at which the Moon is closest to Earth). June’s full Moon stands at 222,238.4 miles (357,658 km) away — comfortably within that cut-off point,” reads the description in the Old Farmer’s Almanac.”

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