hey missing your daily blogs, want to know your thoughts on this earthquake :)

Like you said, 2nd week of Sept is looking pretty exciting for the mainland! Bring on the powder:D

I think the brunt of extreme South island weather next week will be overnight around 10th-12th, which will be a triple whammy of new moon+perigee+crossing equator. But for the month, most South island snow should be from 14th-25th, when the moon is over the southern hemisphere. Still, you should get some preliminary flurries before then.

Ken, i remember seeing on your website on either Monday or Tuesday (your one week from today prediction) and it said snow. Looks to be quite a possible event in Christchurch. How confident are you? MS are saying falling to around 300m in Canterbury, but what is likely to fall sea, or near sea level?

Many Irish stone circles, e.g. those in Cork and Kerry, Maughanaclea near Kealkil, and Reanascreena in the coast if central south Ireland, are reduced ratios of Stonehenge, yet all still exhibiting the Metonic Cycle. Often 3" depicts a week of a 19-year circle. The metonic only pertains to the moon and has absolutely no meaning for anything else. The stone circles were the laptops of their day. All were aligned to the moon and every village seems to have had one. One must ask why, if not for measuring the moon's influence in weather and therefore on farming and harvests, especially as we know agriculture played a major role in ancient village life..

Ken I am not convinced but you got July right for Ireland.

Yes, Stonehenge is ancient radar technology, the laptops of the day. The stone circles employed the Metonic Cycle, amongst other cycles, but there are no less than three lots of metonics in Stonehenge as well as the whole repeating major/minor declination cycle. The book that showed how Stonehenge is aligned to the moon was Stonehenge Decoded, by Gerald Hawkins, but because he was an American professor his pioneering work is still an embarrassment to UK archaeologists, who still find Stonehenge a mystery. Stonehenge would still work today to predict weather and eclipses. To those who cant seem to work out why ancient people in every town and village carried massive stones and stuck them in the ground in exact repeating patterns, ask what they think it was all for? And why did each have a huge moat around it, if not to keep out children and nuisances who would knock down markers that had to stay in place for 19 years?

I suppose pinewoodqtn you're going to tell me stonehenge is ancient radar technology. Don't bother replying, I'll leave you to your vigourous "debate" with Ken.

Well I don't have much time for shonks and charlatans myself. That's why the climategate and global warmer scammers of this world don't get my vote. Some think that freedom is their entitlement to come onto someone else's blog and throw bricks around. Frankly I don't want to deal with that kind of criticism which is not debate about the method but an effort to paint me as some kind of criminal. There are other anti-Ken Ring websites they can go to and moan there. I am always ready to discuss the moon and weather, and answer questions. I shall remove postings from anyone that I consider is choosing to use this blog for personality assassination. I would be the first to admit that I am not 100% correct - no one is. Weather is an inexact science. Doctors too make mistakes. But if one does, we don't close all the hospitals. We just discuss what happened.

MrRedman1968 - if you have read ken's books and applied the principles of the moon phases you would see it works. How do you explain Stonehenge? and the use for it? Big stones that look cool? Each to there own beliefs though. Stop flaming someone when you obviously haven't even tested his theories.

Like today the moon was waxing and in his book predicting weather by the moon it states the sky's will clear in the afternoons when the moon rises which they did. You also get bad weather round the full and new moons but you wouldn't notice that would you. I marked every full and new moon on our calendar at work before the start of winter last year. It snowed around those dates.

MrReadman you are the one thats ranting move on and leave us to our moon weather.