Year's Final Supermoon Dazzles, Turns Lake Carmel Into Winter Wonderland

CARMEL, N.Y. -- Like a scene out of a fairy tale, the final Supermoon of 2016 put on a dazzling performance Wednesday night in the skies over Putnam County.

The final Supermoon of 2016 lights up the December skies over Lake Carmel Wednesday night.
Photo Credit: *Skip Pearlman*

The final Supermoon of 2016 lights up the December skies over Putnam last night.
Photo Credit: *Skip Pearlman*

The final Supermoon of 2016 lights up the December skies over Lake Carmel last night.
Photo Credit: *Skip Pearlman*

Skip Pearlman

12/15/2016 8:19 p.m.

The Supermoon - at its largest and most impressive when it's still low near the horizon - blended with residents' Christmas lighting displays, and a frozen Lake Carmel, to create a virtual winter wonderland.

Daily Voice captured some of the magic, and also many of the impressive holiday lighting displays in the area.

We'll see three Supermoons in 2017 - May 25, June 24 and December 3.

A supermoon is the coincidence of a full moon or a new moon with the closest approach the moon makes to the Earth on its elliptical orbit, resulting in the largest apparent size of the lunar disk as seen from Earth.

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