Predicting Weather By The Moon - Xavier University Libraries

Weather By The Moon
Storms are also phase-related, the most likely time
being Last Quarter during, for the Northern Hemisphere,
when the Moon is at its southern monthly declination point.
The converse applies in the Southern Hemisphere, when it
is at its northern monthly declination point. If lightning
happens to be at night, it is more likely to occur around
New Moon or 1 st Quarter.
Where the New Moon is over the Northern Hemisphere
and going south towards the Equator, and conversely
when the Full moon is over the Southern Hemisphere and
going north towards the Equator, cyclones are generally
absent in both hemispheres.
There are some alternative forecasting systems that
say the positions of the planets have some bearing on the
weather. One would be unwise to dismiss any possibility
that seemed scientifically sound. Some environmentalists
put much faith in the plotting and record-comparing of solar
flare disturbances. Some systems involve just watching
for sunspot activity, which forms an 11 year cycle. It is
safe to say that when Mercury crosses the Sun, colder
weather ensues if in winter and hotter temperatures than
normal(which may lead to tornadoes, typhoons, tropical
cyclones or hurricanes)if summer. But as the Moon is the
closest to us, it is hard to overlook the fact that lunar gravitational
attraction has by far the strongest potential to
change things here on earth.
There also seems to be an effect from the alignment
of Saturn(which orbits every 29 years) and Jupiter(which
orbits every 11 years), when together on the opposite side
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