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Weather By The Moon
injured in Brazil when a train plunged into the Tangua River,
northeast of Rio de Janiero. Most of the passengers were
Easter holiday makers, sleeping when the train sped over a
bridge that wasn’t there. In Spain, 19 were killed when two
trains collided in the atrocious weather. And in England, a
minor air crash. In New South Wales, heavy rain caused
flooding that almost totally submerged the town of Warren
population 2000. It was the 10th of April, same day as
the Wahine capsizing. Same date. Same position of the
Moon; (within 4 days of Full Moon in perigee). There was
just one difference - ALL THE ABOVE newspaper reports
were from the same date, ONE MOON CYCLE BEFORE.
So could the Wahine tragedy conditions have been
foreseen? Opposite is the sequence of the old meteorological
service maps, hand-drawn as they were back then a
19-year Moon cycle previously, from 9/4/49 to 11/4/49.
One can see a rather nasty-looking low pressure system
moving up and over the country from the south. Southerlies
always whip the Cook Strait into a fury. By the 10th it
appears to be crossing the middle of the country. The
storm’s centre has reached the north by the 11th but stormy
conditions still look to be prevailing over areas to the south.
We can assume that the day of 10/4/49 would not have been
sunny and pleasant, least of all calm. We can also postulate
that all shipping through the Cook Strait would have been
advised to wait till the bad weather had subsided. And one
Moon cycle after the 10th April 1968?
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