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Why are some years leap years while others are not? And when is the next leap year? We explain.

These festive holiday chili pepper plants were once more popular than poinsettias. Learn more!

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You’ve heard of Daylight Saving Time, Standard Time, Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific Time, but have you heard of the term Greenwich Mean Time, sometimes referred to simply as GMT, or Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), and wondered what the heck it is? In essence, “mean time” is what you would read off of a clock.

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Before you make your plans for a cookout and fireworks, check out our Independence Day weather forecast first!

Winter's over? Sort of. We explain why meteorologists have already moved on to the spring season and how it differs from our calendar.

Make plans now for vacations and special events with help from the Farmers’ Almanac US Holiday Calendar here, covering 2025 and 2026. US Holidays in 2025 Name Date Type New Year’s Day Wednesday, January 1 Fixed Epiphany (Catholic) Sunday, January 5 Movable Epiphany (Episcopal) Monday, January 6 Movable Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Obs. Monday,