#I'm back
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Jack,
I'm glad you survived the Great Storm of '93–we're supposed to get 6 inches
today. You mentioned the extreme low pressure and I was just wondering if the
recent close orbitting of the moon had a not so subtle effect on the weather?
It would be interesting to see if the storm of 1777 and 1888 had similar close
orbittings of the moon.
Paul
I don't think that the moon itself had much to do with it since the real
conjunction of two weeks ago was that the moon was as close as it gets to the
Earth in any given year (but it gets there once a year) AND it was full, which
it gets once a month. It was just the two together that was unusual, but it
happens, I think, every 83 years or so, and the most serious effect is on
tides, which can be monstrous and which is why everybody was scared to death on
the oceanfront here. Didn't happen, but only because the storm decided to move
a bit inland and come right up the Bay.
Certainly a whole bunch of things have to be just so before a storm of this
magnitude can get started, let alone sustain itself, but I think it's more
complex than that.
Jack,
Maybe it's a chaotic result of Phillipine volcanism, El Nino and a Monarch
butterfly making its annual journey north from its breeding grounds in Mexico.
Paul
Actually, my theory is that it's an abnormally large number of buzzards
returning to Hinkley, Ohio.