Show Moon I Does Not Cause I Wet Or Dry sly Weather One of the com commonest lonest ionest and likewise one of the most u reasonable weather superstitions say the Weather Bur Bur- Bureau Bureau Dur-cau Dur eau of the Unite United States Department of Agriculture i the belief that if the horns of the new crescent moon tip downward i it is a wet moon portending rain The position of o the lunar crescent Clescent depends upon th angle that the them themo m moons moon's path maks mak s with the horizon I Ian an and en any given late ate it t is always the same in places h Ii ving the same lati- lati latitude latitude lati latitude tude If this wea her sign were trust trust- trustworthy trustworthy trustworthy worthy the san i kind of weather I either dry or rai iy S would prevail on onan an any given date throughout a belt of latitude extend extending in entirely r around the I globe Of tour cour courle e a there is no such uniformity of iw ather in relation to t latitude In th temperate zones herc where the r r 1 travels from west to cast east the gre grea est cst contrasts of wet an and dry weather conditions arc are likely I to ie JC found al alo ig g parallels of lati- lati latitude latitude lati latitude tude rather thai tha meridians of long long- longitude Near Near the Eq EC Eqi tor the position of the young moon never makes an an- an ani angle i gle of more than SO 0 deg with the hori hori- horizon hori horizon zon an and it is in an even more n nearly arly h he position so 30 Izon that in a part c the world notorious for reg regions ons of he ivy vy rainfall the moon is according to he ie proverb always a dry one The final absurdity is the case of the cre ores ent moon as seen from the north s id d south poles where I it is always wh Vh t the proverb bes describes bes as wet fo to at those places the theline line joining the tips of the crescent crescentI always ma makes kes a angle of less than 25 deg deg- to the v yet the polar regions are arc cha chai by so little I precipitation in pe ie form of rain and snow that they ink ank among the arid regions of the gle gl be e |