Predicting Weather By The Moon - Xavier University Libraries

Questions
percentage of air shifted be much greater than the percentage
of water shifted?
A: Yes, because gravity wouldn’t act as much on the air to stop it
moving from the far side. The airtide is about 20% at times but a
watertide can rise about two metres which probably isn’t as much
as 20%
Q: How did you calculate one moon cycle? The dates you
gave aren’t 18.6 years apart.
A: Anything from 18-20. It varies. You look for the same
conditions combining together within 6 months or so.
Q: Can you tell where north and south is from looking at the
Moon?
A: The Moon generally rises in the east and sets west or
northwest. When Full, the Moon is opposite to the Sun in the sky,
and to observers in the Northern Hemisphere of the Earth it lies
due south at the stroke of midnight. For those watching from the
Southern Hemisphere, it lies due north at midnight.
Q: It seems to me it would be important to know the shape of
the bulging atmosphere, and specifically how the height of the
atmosphere on the far side from the moon compares to that of
the portions at right angles to the moon ie the “low tide”
zones. Is there any way of judging simply whether the
atmosphere on the far side is thicker or thinner than that at
the sides of Earth -what you’d call the midzone atmosphere?
A: I don’t think there would be any midzone atmosphere.
Presumably the atmosphere on the far side is lower than that at
the sides of the Earth because the Moon would be pulling the
atmosphere in this zone. That would to some extent take in the
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