Now! Then! 2025! - Yorkshire On This Day

A Yorkshire Almanac Comprising 365 Historical Extracts, Red-letter Days and Customs, and Astronomical and Meteorological Data

« Yorkshire on Monday 13 January 2025 »

Then!

Yorkshire in history:

Proverbially:

Munday flitte
Neaver sitte.
(Best 1857)

Now!

Hull, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 08:09-16:10, zenith 12:10
  • Moon: set 08:39 rise 15:06, full moon (after Yule)

Leeds, on earth and in heaven:

  • Water level in Meanwood Beck at Monk Bridge: 0.30m (within normal range, highest recorded level 1.93m on 6 May 2024) (EA)
  • Sun: 08:14-16:15, zenith 12:14
  • Moon: set 08:44 rise 15:10, full moon (after Yule)

Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 08:17-16:09, zenith 12:13
  • Moon: set 08:50 rise 15:02, full moon (after Yule)

Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 08:12-16:16, zenith 12:14
  • Moon: set 08:40 rise 15:13, full moon (after Yule)

York, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 08:13-16:12, zenith 12:13
  • Moon: set 08:44 rise 15:07, full moon (after Yule)

Red-letter days and other special events:

    ✝ Hilary of Poitiers – Hammer of the Arians ! Plough Monday – first day back at work after Christmas and Epiphany, known in Yorkshire for Plough Stotts ! Lohri – Punjabi midwinter fire festival 🗩 Coldest day of the year (Swainson 1873)

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