ALMANAC FOR FEBRUARY-MARCH 1999

February/March 1999
By the Mother Earth News editors 
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1 No full moon this month (see text of column); Venus now sets about 1 hour and 50 minutes after the sun.

 2 Groundhog Day; Candlemas; in easternmost

U.S. (NJ, NY, New England) a telescope shows the bright star Regulus coming out from behind the dark right edge of the moon right at moonrise.

3 Temperature this day in 1917 dropped to 27°F in downtown Miami (yes, that's Miami, Florida).

4 Asteroid Vesta at opposition-visible all night long and possibly just bright enough to glimpse with naked eye (see Sky& Telescope magazine for details); start of Japanese first haiku season (originally lunar month)-Sociable Month.

 5 On February 4 and 5,1887, a record 3.7 inches of snow blanketed downtown San Francisco.

 6 Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard hit a golf ball an estimated 400 yards in low gravity on the moon this day in 1971.

7 Moon rises just left of Mars in the hour before midnight; 15 years ago today, Space Shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless and Robert Stewart did first untethered space walks, using Manned Maneuvering Unit.

8 LAST QUARTER MOON, 6:58 A.m. EST; last astronauts left Skylab space station this day 25 years ago.

 9 Temperature hit-66°F this day in 1933 in West Yellowstone, Montana.

10 Pluto resumes its title as farthest planet from the sun ...for about the next 230 years! (see text of column).

 11 Temperature dropped as low as -61°F in Montana this day 100 years ago (start of the great 1899 Arctic blast, which soon thereafter covered the entire U.S.).

 12 Abraham Lincoln's Birthday; Kansas City hit -22°F this day 100 years ago.

 13 Venus and Jupiter now about one fist width at arm's length (10°) apart and closing (see text of column); Mobile, Alabama, hit - 1°F this day 100 years ago.

 14 St. Valentine's Day; this day in 1895 the "Big Snow" dumped an incredible 15.4 inches on Galveston, 20-inches-plus on Houston, up to 24 inches in southwestern Louisiana, and 8 inches in New Orleans; 100 years ago today, a snow depth of 34 inches was reached in Washington, D.C., and 41 inches in Cape May (the southernmost tip of New Jersey).

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