Show ring around moon does not indicate coming storm studies of the weather which follow the appearance of a ring around the moon show that this phenomenon does not herald the approach of stormy or wet weather neither rings around the moon nor changes of the phases of the moon appear to affect weather asserts a writer in pearsons london weekly the moon has been an object of superstition from early times because it is the most conspicuous body in the night heavens however most of the popular beliefs about it are false and when a ring appears around the moon the weather which follows may be wet but it is lust just as likely to be fine |