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Folklore Confirmed: The Moon's Phase Affects Rainfall
The Zuni Indians thought a red moon brought water. Seventeenth-century Englísh farmers believed in a "dripping moon," which supplied rain depending on whether its crescent was tilted up or down. Now scientists have found evidence for another adage: Rain follows the full and new phases of the moon.
Most studies on the weather and moon phases appeared in the 1960s and seemed to lend credence to lunar folklore. Researchers detected more peaks in rainfall in the days after the full and new moons, for example. Recently, three researchers decided to revive the issue when they stumbled across a link between moon phases and stream runoff while working on another project. They wíll soon publish in Geophysícal Research Letters one of the most comprehensive studies yet, with more than a century of data from across the continental United States.
The researchers, a team comprised of geographers and climatologists from Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe, and the Natíonal Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, North Carolina, first analyzed their original stream runoff finding in more depth, pulling data from almost 11,000 U.S. Geological Survey stations on inland streams that had runoff measurements from as far back as 1900. After calculating the moon's phase for each measurement, they discovered a slight increase in stream flow around the quarter moon, halfway between the full and new moons.
That by itself didn't mean the moon directly affected rain—a previous study suggested that tides could be raising the water table, feeding the hígher stream levels. To show a link to rainfall, the researchers turned to the U.S. Historical Climatology Network, a database with daily precipitation information for more than 1200 stations from as early as 1895. True to farmers' wisdom, precipitation tended to rise a few days before the quarter moon.
It's not a strong link. "The lunar variations don't, for example, explain the Pakistani floods," says Peter Thorne, a climate scientist at NCDC, who was not part of the research. But they do seem to account for 1% to 2% of the total changes in rainfall or stream runoff. "It's a real effect, but it's a real small effect," Thorne says.
The researchers stíll aren't sure how the moon exerts this effect. Most guesses also cóme from the 1960s and '70s. Back then, some scientists suggested that the moon's orbit could distort the magnetosphere, a regíon of ionized particles surrounding Earth's protective magnetic field. This might allow more particles from space into the atmosphere, where they could trigger rain when they collide with clouds. Others speculated that the moon's orbit could increase the amount of meteoric dust reaching Earth, which could also trigger rain when it hít clouds, or that the moon could create a pressure bulge that would affect storm systems—a hypothesis floated by the study's lead author, Randall Cerveny of ASU Tempe.
Still, says Cerveny, the true mechanism remains elusive. "We've kind of taken it back one link," Cerveny says. "Hopefúlly, other people are going to work the chain back to the ultimate cause."
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