Show THE MOON AND THE WEATHER role scientific ack ntine facts regarding an all ow I 1 the tides adam forepaugh sit sat on a 1 nail lieg ou the elevated seats chicago said lie he why chicago is abo greatest show WWII town ia the and ind alien thell tile moon why weve got another week of tho the moon be fore for atlie the change Vh ais that got gol to do with it tile the reporter asked A good deal lie he answered its a dry moon whenever you we see a moon lie io on oil it its back it never rains the above conversation took place olic afternoon ofte moon noon and within thirty six hours thereafter the first rain in several weeks was avas filling falling of all surviving pseudo superstitions that of the influence of the moon on tile weather teather dies the hardest and the belief that the so called changes of tit the moon MOO ar are e accompanied or followed by changes in the condition of the terrestrial atmosphere is ia still to bo be found among amone a very large number indeed of otherwise educated and enlightened people A recent writer in the english mechanic ic has examined the grounds of this belief and attributes tributes i it to the weather predictions in in the almanacs of the eally eaily part of the alie century A As to alie moon 11 changing one would imagine to hear the majority of pe people ople talk that a cl change iange of the moon is in some sense cognate with a conjuring trick in which the ap performer er former after showing that he be has nothing in his hand band instantaneously produces an egg an orange orange or a ball it now bothin nothing could well bo W further from tile the truth alian than this the fact being that the alie moon is always changing 01 second before conjunction she is waning 01 second after it she is iq waxing and so throughout her ber monthly path when her celestial longitude V is identical with that of the he sun site she is said lit iu the almanac to be new when such longitude differs 90 degrees from the still suns Is toward the east she is in her arst quarter when they are separated by degrees the moon is full and when she has traveled to that point in her orbit in which she is ii 00 degrees td t the west ol of tile the sun she is said to belin bebin her alast las quarter 01 in each case it being asni assumed niec that sho she is viewed from tint earths center the use of the A bial J change t then 11 ein 1 in n connection with I 1 liet heil position in these four points of her orbit is a solecism pure and but 1 people ire are heard to lo say a Y as tile moon influences the tides avley should it not affect tho the atmosphere too te tc which the immediately obvious reply is iq that the tides are it a dinimal alie phenomenon no so that on 0 this principle tile the weather ought to change twice a day also a conclusion too absei d to bo be entertained nevertheless tho the moon does influence tile the atmosphere by causing the production in it of tides so minute as is under ordinary circumstances to be masked by bv other fluctuations the tha existence of tides was first definitely I 1 I 1 established by the observations of the late I 1 professor daniell Danic ll but it if these Ini minute allbE tides influenced tho the weather in the slightest degree it must change twice a day a I 1 supposition too ridiculous to merit notice I 1 the moon on her ter back as a weather sign would appear to bo a good deal like I 1 the old womans comans indigo test if tile dye dve i was pure atwould tw either sink or swim she ehe dis remembered which mr fore paugh say bays a it s a dry moon but in many parta part of the country and uniformly in england the belief prevails that ihal I 1 the young moon is lying on her back in other when the line file joining her cusps is nearly or quite quit to parallel to the horizon lioi hoi izon she is holding water avater and rain will certainly follow i how ither either ej belief arose it itt would rould be idle idl el I 1 to speculate but the explanation of the phenomenon itself I 1 is sufficiently simple I 1 in the outset the moon is never much inch J more than 3 3 begs either cither to the north or I 1 couth of tho the ecliptic or apparent annual I 1 I 1 path of tile the sun through I 1 tho 0 heavens now the hie line adjoining her ter cusps the I 1 sharp points of her crescent is always awaya square to a great circle pawing passing through th I 1 I 1 tho the still eun and moon two ini minutes study I 1 f a celestial globe will show how variable is ir the tha inclination of tho the ecliptic to tile he I 1 horizon and coh consequently aly that of the line joining tho the cusps ot the filloon moon also finally tho the mo most moa A elaborate comparisons of meteorological records made in franco france and in england where retho lie greenwich I 1 observations rations for were calef carefully tilly collat collated td with the moons phases I 1 i during that period have hava sufficed to show I 1 that no connection whatever exists be tween them the solitary observable effect of tile moon upon our atmosphere was avas belie believed by sir john herschel herrli l to bo be j exhibited in the tendency to disappear anco ance of cloud under the full moon and 1 1 this lie attributed to the heat radiated from her surface chicago news |