Predicting Weather By The Moon - Xavier University Libraries

Declination
the Sun, the Earth, and the Moon lie along a common line.
One of the most devastating east-coast coastal storms on
record in the USA took place during 5th - 8th March in
1962. The New Moon, Perigee, and crossing the equator
combined on 6 th March 1962. When the Moon is over the
Earth’s Equator (as in the months of Spring and Fall Equinoxes),
the amplitudes of morning and night-time tides are
the same. In March 1962, 5 successive high tides fell into
the category of super-elevated Perigee spring tides of
nearly equal magnitudes. The storm center became blocked
so that the high winds kept blowing, all the while that the
higher-than-normal astronomic tides of equal magnitude
were moving in and out. The result was huge and widespread
destruction.
There is a large electrical factor too, in violent
storms. The Moon is magnetically locked to the Earth.
Surges in the magnetic field cause inductive heating in the
core/mantle of the Earth. Increases in the global magnetic
fields add energy to hurricanes that are moving to the midlatitudes,
in synchronisation with the lunar equatorial crossings
(North or South). In other words, if there is a storm
brewing around the middle band of Earth and the Moon is
crossing the equator at that moment, the storm will be
magnified.
Imagine that a wobbling dinner plate settles a bit so it
nearly flattens out and then as you watch, it slowly rises up
again into a bigger wobble. You keep watching and you see
it settle back down again, only to rise again later and repeat
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