Predicting Weather By The Moon - Xavier University Libraries

What Causes Weather
tern in May 2001 thru July of 2002. By mid-2003 the pattern
will cease, with the next El Nino pattern due around
the southern hemisphere summer of 2009/10.
The Moon transports the warm tropical atmosphere
into the temperate zones, thus increasing the average temperatures
there. A warm band of water mainly warms the
area between the Tropics for the first and last quarters of
the 18.613-year cycle. Tidal currents up the west coast of
South America stall and the Gulf Stream gets no warm water
inflow. The result is at those times very cold winters in
areas of the upper northern hemisphere like Canada, and in
extreme southern hemisphere areas like the South Island
of New Zealand. It can also mean heat waves in those areas
in the summertime, because there is not enough atmospheric
insulation from the heat of the Sun..
This was a pattern the world saw from 1995 to 1998.
Less warm tropical air was moved by the Moon north and
south of the equator each month into the temperate zones,
bringing with it below average temperatures.
The 1974 and the 1992 ‘El Nino’ had the same components
in that the slope of the inclination (to the
ecliptic)had the 5° northern about the Sun, and 5° below
that plane at the spring equinox of the Southern Hemisphere.
The Moon, as it were, hinges upwards at the Tropic of Capricorn
when moving northwards and downwards from the
Tropic of Cancer when moving south.
During the 1964, 1982 and 2000/01 ‘El Nino’ periods
the slope is in the Northern Hemisphere of their au-
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