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 Saturday 1 March 2025 »

Then!

Yorkshire in history:

Now!

Hull, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 06:46-17:40, zenith 12:13
  • Moon: rise 07:22 set 20:00, waxing crescent

Leeds, on earth and in heaven:

  • Water level in Meanwood Beck at Monk Bridge: 0.29m (within normal range, highest recorded level 1.93m on 6 May 2024) (EA)
  • Sun: 06:51-17:45, zenith 12:18
  • Moon: rise 07:27 set 20:05, waxing crescent

Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 06:51-17:43, zenith 12:17
  • Moon: rise 07:26 set 20:05, waxing crescent

Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 06:50-17:45, zenith 12:18
  • Moon: rise 07:27 set 20:05, waxing crescent

York, on earth and in heaven:

  • Sun: 06:49-17:43, zenith 12:16
  • Moon: rise 07:25 set 20:04, waxing crescent

Red-letter days and other special events:

    ✝ Start of Ramadan – Gabriel appears to Muhammad in a cave, and, finding him illiterate, teaches him an initial instalment of the Koran ✝ Start of Ramendan – Pastafarians may only consume Ramen noodles ✝ David – patron of Wales, poets, leeks ! Carnival Saturday ! Pilgrimage of Sloth – Carnival Saturday procession by the Headingley Gallimaufrians to Idle, Bradford, in homage to Prophet John Wroe (see 29 Feb) ! Meteorological spring ! Yorkshire regional brass band championships (Huddersfield)

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