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Show Sfiars Do the stars affect our weather? Does the Milky Way, which now extends in a vast curve through the center of the celestial hemisphere from northeast to west, have any influence in-fluence on weather? AS FAR AS astronomers now know, the stars have little if anything to do with our weather, but our sun is all-important all-important and actually is the source of all our weather. The stars and other suns may have long range bearings bear-ings on our sun" and on our weather but that question is not vet finally resolved THE SUN'S heating of the earth's surface is the beginning of all our weather movement, the making of clouds, the rising of warm air, and the making of Winds. Without our sun, the earth would be a bleak place, perhaps like the moon or some cold lifeless planet. |