How to Forecast Weather

[rosie]

This neat little chart gives a breakdown on all the natural ways to forcast your weather, no radio or T.V. required. :cool: (I was going to shrink the size down, but it would have been harder to read, sorry about the large size)

http://i46.tinypic.com/10dzig8.jpg

[Niobe]

This is great! Thanks so much for posting. :)

[delaware]

thanks, very interesting!

[whenyournex2me]

This is very helpful! thank you for posting!

[nomadguy]

http://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/197206_1878087161969_1534956715_3755704_6310138_n.jpg

Hmm I wonder how it could be possible to forecast something as diverse and compacted as the jet stream shown above, ~which is today 4/4/2011 .

[HORIZONS]

This is all well and good unless you live in Arkansas - here if you don't like the weather, stick around it will change by the next day. Yesterday it was 85 and I got a sunburn working my garden - today it is 55 and will frost over tonight. :(

[sister]

We are currently studing how almanacs work in our home school science unit. Long term weather forecasting is based on the Saros Climate Cycle. Here is some info from the Blum's Almanac website:

"[This] long range weather forecast is based on the "saros" climate cycle that generally repeats itself every 6585 days. The word "saros" comes from the ancient Chaldeans who used this cycle to predict eclipses. The moon will very nearly return in 6585 days to today's position in its orbital geometry relative to the earth and sun."

If the weather does run in cycles and if it is affected by the proximity of celestial masses, it is logical to base long term predictions of current weather patterns on cycles which occured 18.03 years in the past.

A great book to have is You and the Man in the Moon, written by JR Pyle and Taylor Reese. It's a complete guide to using the almanac. They also wrote Raising with the Moon, which is very informative.