The evening the Soviet Union ended

At 7 pm Mikhail Gorbachev resigned on television, and the Soviet flag was lowered over the Kremlin. The winter sky and weather of Moscow that evening.

The weather that day

• -2.1 to 0.5 °C, overcast, no rain.
• A southwest wind, 8 km/h on average, and pressure from 1008 to 1013 hPa.

The sky

• Sunrise at 07:59, sunset at 15:00.
• The moon: waning gibbous, 75% lit.

Its name

Nebulorte Hoar: Mist that never lifted, and pressure climbing, under a waning gibbous moon.

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