The good thing about fall’s shorter days is that there are more hours for stargazing. If only the darn moon would turn its brights off.

Sunday night’s moon put in a valiant effort to light up Montreal neighbourhoods, but that was only a preview of Monday’s supermoon.

Moonrise is at 5:44 p.m., but it won’t be considered “full” till 11:47 p.m. The Harvest Moon is the first supermoon of 2026, but it won’t be the last: there will be one each in November and December.

“It’s not really very unusual,” Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer with the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, told the Associated Press. We here at the weather desk don’t think that’s a very romantic approach.

Anyway, before moonrise, expect sunny skies and a high of 28 C with a humidex of 31 and a UV index of 5 or moderate. Th

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