The Miracle on Ice

At 5 pm in Lake Placid, the young US Olympic hockey team faced the Soviet Union, and won 4–3. The weather and the sky of Lake Placid that winter day.

The weather that day

• -18.8 to -4.7 °C, snow, 9.7 mm of rain.
• A southeast wind, 12 km/h on average, and pressure from 1023 to 1006 hPa.

The sky

• Sunrise at 06:46, sunset at 17:34.
• The moon: first quarter, 49% lit.

Its name

Gelilapse Drift: -19 °C before sunrise, and the barometer sinking, beneath a moon 49% lit.

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