Super ‘Cold Moon’ rises up through clear pink skies over a super cold Kalamazoo

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Clear skies Thursday night offered an unobstructed view of the last full moon of 2025, rising up over Kalamazoo, Michigan.

These photos were captured around 5:15 pm ET.

December’s full supermoon is also known as the super “cold moon,” which is perfectly fitting for a day when temperatures in West Michigan dropped significantly to single digits.

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A supermoon is a phenomenon when the moon is as close as it can be to Earth in orbit, according to NASA, making it appear up to 14% larger and 30% brighter than the moon at its faintest.

Supermoons happen a few times each year when the moon hits the closest range in elliptical orbit, NASA reports.

Thursday night’s supermoon marked the last of three in a row for 2025…

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