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Weather By The Moon
in different parts of the United States. It seems that maximum
spring rainfall readings occurred progressively later
in the synodic month as you moved from the West Coast
to the East Coast, with a time-shift delay of about 13 days
between the two coasts.
In any hemisphere, whether or not anticyclonic or
cyclonic systems are generated depends on which way the
Moon is progressing on its declination cycle, i.e. to the
north or to the south. If one is in the Southern Hemisphere
and the Moon is coming up from the south, the airflow
causes anticyclones to be formed to the left and cyclones
to the right. The cyclones are short-lived, because they are
already well to the east. Anticyclones will then move over
the country. This will be repeated around almost every
southern declination in the Southern hemisphere. Southern
declinations are usually accompanied, in winter, by Full
moons. Colder weather more often features around Full
moons, because most heat gets lost from the day when the
skies are clear overnight.
WHAT CAUSES EARTHQUAKES?
Moon quakes do not have the frequency or power of
quakes on Earth, but there are about 3,000 in the Moon per
year, penetrating different layers of the Moon. There is
evidence that moonquakes increase when the Moon is closest
in its orbit to Earth. Correspondingly, we might expect
an increase in earthquakes at that time, (the perigee) too.
Earthquakes are triggered by the Moon in its monthly move-
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