Hi, if you have just joined this newsletter, which looks behind the weather and way ahead and at the way the MOON creates our climate. These notes will be produced around significant weather events.
The moon reached its southern declination yesterday. That is why southerlies are moving up country right now, mainly affecting the South Is., and their main brunt should be over by the weekend. In the skireport on www.predictweather.com we calculated snow on all South Is skifields today, the 2nd. This has happened on cue. My reason for highlighting this is so that we all can have weather tools at our disposal, especially those of us who go up the ski slopes.
Well, the heavy rain warning came to nothing over the entire country on the weekend. A glance at Saturday's Herald will show you, under Tomorrow all those 'rain' words predicted for areas on Sunday, and an update glance at Monday's Herald will show you, under Yesterday, that all those areas that should have got rain but instead had fine, cloudy etc. For tonight I notice there is a gale warning and another heavy rain prediction. Anyone with my Weather Almanac 2001 might glance at today's map on p233. The low doing the threat of damage is indeed squarely over the north but moves away quickly over the next couple of days. Being so close to a Full Moon(on Saturday) means that at the moment it is a night moon, and will largely keep the rain away until moonset, which will be at 6am tomorrow morning.
There is very little need for panic, or turning anything off. Some rain is
petering into the hydrolakes at the moment, and two falls are expected in
August. The first will be around the 10th and the next around the end of the
month. Pukaki will get an extra dollop on the 19th. Although the falls will
be accompanied by minus temperatures, meaning that some of the precipitation
will be snow, nevertheless, it WILL make the lakes rise.
I have always claimed that one purpose of the global warming scarescam is to
justify the high and rising cost of electricity. If they can get us to
believe that the world is slowly getting forever warmer, then we will be
softened up to accept that the lakes are going to be forever lower. Rising
prices are linear, not cyclic, and hence the attempt to steer people away
from the cyclic nature of weather.
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