Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1918 — No Connection Between the Weather and Moon’s Changes [ARTICLE]

No Connection Between the Weather and Moon’s Changes

People who rely on the moon as a weather indicator (writes a correspondent) must have very short memories, for accurate comparisons prove conclusively that there is no connection . whatever between the weather and the moon’s changes of phase. Professor Schuster analyzed a whole century’s weather records, and, as a result, was unable to trace any lunar period in them. Several authorities are agreed, however, that there is a tendency for clouds to disperse as a full moon comes to the meridian of any place;but it is a far cry from that to the definite belief that the weather changes with a change in the lunar phases. These changes, of course, can be predicted for years in advance with perfect accuracy, and if the weather, depended. on them, weather forepasting would be the simplest of all the sciences, instead of the most difficult.