Predicting Weather By The Moon - Xavier University Libraries

Weather By The Moon
this time than at any other Moon phase in the month. Just
why probably has something to do with the Van Allen Belt,
which is the protective magnetic field encircling Earth from
pole to pole, which shields Earth from too much electrical
energy from the Sun. Because the Full/Last Quarter Moon
is a night Moon, that is to say, it is over the opposite hemisphere
during the day, by gravitational attraction it pulls
the Van Allen Belt towards itself and so, because Earth is
in the way, those charged particles are pulled closer to the
Earth. During the day the charged particles electrify the
clouds which have formed because the cold of space has
entered the lowered daytime atmosphere. This is often a
recipe for an electrical storm.
The Last Quarter is a time of cloudy afternoons and
early evening cloud.and at that time too, possible rain. There
is also increased ozone(more electrical activity on the upper
oxygen), and more meteoric dust, which the Moon
pulls from the Sun and towards Earth.
Ice nuclei are more predominant in the sky(which
means thunderstorm formation is more likely) and plant
growth increases due to plants becoming more electrically
charged, and having the least protection from the magnetic
solar wind around the Sun.
The early morning and midday bring no rain, but in
the afternoon showers will fall if rain is about. The evening
is a possible time for tornadoes and electrical storms in
the afternoon/evening.. Rain is less likely after midnight
If Summer, the last quarter Moon can make the day
very hot and the winter day very cold, especially if the wind
comes from the northeast or northwest in the Northern
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