STRAIGHT UP (WKZO) — These things only happen once in a blue moon, and today is that day.
The moon over our heads today is called a “blue moon” because it’s the second full moon this calendar month.
It can usually take a couple of years or more for the very steady sweep of our planetary dance partner, and the very irregular human calendar to align so there are two full ones in the same 31-day period.
The next one won’t occur until January of 2008.
Long before we stared at our cell phones and our plasma screens, we stared at the moon all night, and came up with names to call the different moons.
This one is also called a Full Thunder Moon, because July is often a stormy month.
