Moon in Tampa Today — Waning Gibbous

Moon in Tampa — Did You Know?

• ·Tampa's large Cuban and Puerto Rican communities maintain Afro-Cuban and Afro-Caribbean lunar traditions in the Ybor City neighborhood — once the 'Cigar Capital of the World' — including Santería moon ceremonies and the practice of cutting hair and planting herbs by lunar phase, customs that have been practiced in Tampa since the 1880s.
• ·Tampa Bay's geography gives moon observers a wide, low western horizon over the open bay and Gulf of Mexico: the setting full moon drops toward the water over the bay's smooth surface, creating a blazing path of reflection visible from the Courtney Campbell Causeway, a moon-watching vantage point beloved by Tampa residents.
• ·At latitude 28.0°N, Tampa sees the winter full moon climb to approximately 86° above the southern horizon — so close to the zenith that it appears nearly overhead at its peak — and the Gulf Coast's warm subtropical air often produces a striking amber lunar disc on clear nights, particularly when Atlantic moisture drifts inland across the bay.