Halloween in the year 2020 will not be normal (because it obviously will not). In fact, there will probably be a ‘blue moon’ this year, according to EarthSky.
The moon will be “the second of two full moons occurring in one calendar month,” making it a blue moon, which may also be “the third of four full moons in a single season, with a season between a sunshine and equinox. ”
“In recent years, people have used the name blue moon for these two different types of moons: second out of two full moons in a calendar month, or third out of four full moons in one season,” according to EarthSky.
The last blue moon happened on March 31, 2018, according to EarthSky.
But a blue moon also occurred in May 2019. It was actually full May “flower” month – known as the Corn Planting Moon and the Milk Moon. It was also considered a “blue” moon, as I wrote for Deseret.com.
Of course, the moon will not actually be blue. It’s just the name of the month.
“The name ‘blue moon’ has nothing to do with the color of the moon,” Gianluca Masi, astrophysicist and director of the Virtual Telescope Project in Rome, told CNN in 2019. ” Every two to three years we have 13 full moons within a year. This way we can have four full moons in a given season or two full moons in a given month. ”
So yes, 2020 – a year that seems like it will never end and yet seems like it’s going super fast at the same time – will also have a unique month.
What a year.
As ComicBook.com puts it, “While the upcoming monthly event may not be as exceptional as the name already suggests, the coronavirus pandemic is causing complications around the world in a number of ways, and the upcoming holiday season will be quite unconventional,” he said. the least. “
