The Yorkshire Almanac 2025

Yorkshire On This Day, Comprising 365 Historical Extracts, Red-letter Days and Customs, and Astronomical and Meteorological Data

« Yorkshire today, Sunday 16 November 2025 »

Then!

Yorkshire in history:

Proverbially:

Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)

Now!

Hull, on earth and in heaven:

  • Tonight: light rain showers, temperature 5°C, wind northerly 12mph, visibility very good, pressure 1020mb, relative humidity 76%, pollution low (BBC)
  • Sun: 07:28-16:03, zenith 11:46
  • Moon: rise 03:19 set 14:22, waning crescent
  • Tides (King George Dock): high 03:00 (6.68m), low 09:39 (1.58m), high 15:42 (6.55m), low 21:55 (2.07m)

BBC local news for Hull and East Yorkshire:

Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:

  • Tonight: light rain showers, temperature 5°C, wind north westerly 11mph, visibility very good, pressure 1021mb, relative humidity 74%, pollution low (BBC)
  • Sun: 07:35-16:03, zenith 11:49
  • Moon: rise 03:24 set 14:24, waning crescent
  • Tides (dock entrance): high 00:38 (4.90m), low 07:08 (1.35m), high 13:19 (4.89m), low 19:24 (1.93m)

BBC local news for Tees:

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