Sunday, April 29, 2012

June 10-12, 2012 Long-range Weather Forecast

Mercury will activate the approaching Uranus-Pluto square on June 11th by first forming a square to Uranus and then an opposition to Pluto. The Moon then enters the picture on the 12th by conjoining Uranus and squaring Pluto. Since earthly weather patterns respond to these planetary alignments as amply attested to on the pages of this blog, our purpose here is to determine the type of weather pattern that will ensue as well as the place.

A number of key charts such as the Solar Ingress, Full Moon, and Last Quarter Moon charts concentrates the Uranus-Pluto influence over the eastern U.S. especially the New England and eastern Canada area. Since the square of Mercury to Uranus excites wind velocities, cold, and stormy conditions, and the opposition of Mercury to Pluto also brings cold fronts and storminess, this could be a time of increased storminess over the areas mentioned above.
June 11
The area around 69 west longitude and 34 north latitude which lies about 480 miles east of the North Carolina coast may show the development of a low pressure system or cold front at this time. There is only one influence in the New Moon chart that seems to contradict all of the above. Since this New Moon is an eclipse, it may be important. Transit Jupiter will conjoin the solar eclipse degree and may bring a warm and fair influence that will compete with the cold and storminess of Mercury, Uranus, and Pluto.

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Sunday, April 22, 2012

June 4-7, 2012 Long-range Weather Forecast

During hurricane season 2012, the outer, slower moving planets will form some disruptive aspects that could be instrumental in aggravating hurricane formation this year. These aspects involve the square between Jupiter and Neptune, and the square between Uranus and Pluto. New-England-Map-new-england-83553_400_525 At the beginning of June, Uranus and Pluto are almost exact in their square being less than a degree away. This almost exact aspect may be "close enough for Jazz" in the sense that their influence on weather patterns manifests as the Moon and other planets trigger them even before they are exact.

In the next posts we'll be looking at different weather scenarios that develop during hurricane season and that involve these outer planetary aspects as well as other important ones.

Between the 4th and 7th of June, there are some interesting planetary aspects that affect the New England area. Venus will square Mars on the 4th, the same day as the Full Moon, which is a SuperMoon since the Moon is at its closest approach to Earth. Then on the 5th and the 7th, the Sun will conjoin Venus and square Mars, once again triggering the Venus-Mars square. On the 5th, the Moon will square Uranus and conjoin Pluto activating their approaching square.

The Solar Ingress chart on the 5th shows the Sun-Venus conjunction crossing Uranus at 69 degrees west longitude as it the Moon squares it. This "X marks the spot" just off the southern coast of Maine represents an area of possible severe weather. New England Astro

The square between Venus and Mars always coincides with increasing temperatures. The Sun's conjunction to Venus is accompanied by pluvial indications and the Sun's square to Mars disrupts the atmosphere. If nothing else, we may see a dramatic increase in temperatures over New England, but with the Uranus-Pluto square being triggered as well, bringing a colder air mass into the picture, along with the disruptive influences already mentioned, I'm thinking that there will be atmospheric disturbance over the area. This might manifest in severe storms or as a worst case scenario, a possible early tropical system.

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Overview of UK Winter 2012-13

The Winters of 2011-14

Fulfilled Long-range Forecasts for Hurricane Season 2010

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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Understanding the Warmth of Winter 2011-12 Part 2

On March 24th of this year, Accuweather.com posted an article entitled "Amazing Stats from the March 2012 Heat Wave." The article points out how thousands of high temperature records were broken over the preceding couple of weeks from the High Plains to the East Coast and northward into Canada.

If we look back to see what was happening astrometeorologically a couple of weeks before we are not disappointed to find a very logical answer to this phenomena: the conjunction of Venus and Jupiter on March 14th along with the trine of Venus to Mars, and the trine of Mars to Jupiter all on the same day.


10 March Warmth

Now, can we safely say that a Venus-Jupiter conjunction and the trines of Venus, Mars, and Jupiter have been known by previous experience to correspond with increasing temperatures? A quick look at G.J. McCormack's Astrotech Weather Guide provides the following information. The conjunction of Venus and Jupiter is conducive to a temperate atmosphere that favors out-of-door activities. The trine of Venus to Mars inclines to fair weather and higher ranges of temperature. And the trine of Mars to Jupiter is indicative of rising temperatures with dryness. So all in all, we have a strong previous track record of increasing temperatures with these three planets. What probably added to the impact was the fact that they all were in aspect to each other on the same day.

The astro-locality map shows the position of the Venus-Jupiter conjunction in the New Moon chart for that period. The conjunction and other aspects were affecting the central U.S. Weather patterns then usually travel eastward.

Venus Jupiter

This is another piece of the puzzle explaining the warmth experienced in the last half of March and this information will be taken into account when assessing the next few winters.


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Thursday, April 05, 2012

Understanding the Warmth of Winter 2011-12

Based on my January 24, 2011 post entitled The Winters of 2011-14, I wrote an article for The Mountain Astrologer magazine. It carried the same message: colder winters for 2011-14. In the article, I issued specific forecasts for the United States, Europe, and China. I've been posting the results of these forecasts over the last few months. As far as these individual forecasts go, I was quite pleased with their accuracy, but not as far as the overall cold I expected.

However, it seems that Europe did have a cold winter to speak of. Europe experienced a time of brutal cold more in line with what I was expecting. Accuweather posted some sad news on February 5th in its headline “Europe Cold Wave Death Toll Nears 300.” So, while my individual forecasts fared well, the overall U.S. winter forecast needs to be examined to learn where improvements can be made. Situations like this one, when all is said and done, can make future forecasts more accurate as a better understanding is gained of the astrometeorological process.

The January 27th Accuweather headline stated that “January 2012 Breaks Heat, Cold, Snow and Tornado Records.” The cold referred to in that headline was in Alaska and snowfall records were broken in 23 states. In spite of this, the overall U.S. winter was a warm winter when all was said and done. The cold weather that I forecast was based on the position of Uranus in the season's key chart and it's approaching square to Pluto. And although Uranus did in just about every instance bring wintry weather when aspected, there were other factors at work as well. It seems, in retrospect, that Mars lingering on the ascendant throughout the Plains brought a lot of the heat experienced throughout the winter there.

For example, according to the National Climate Data Center map below, the warmest states on average for the month of January were the orange colored ones.

09 2012 Jan Temps

Now, in astrometeorology, the planet Mars is the author of such warmth. By looking at its position in the Cardinal Solar Ingress for the winter season, we can see how it coincides beautifully with the heat that was experienced. The white line in the map below shows Mars' position.

Jan

The areas of the U.S. that experienced temperatures higher than the average for the month of February 2012 are shown in the Climate Prediction Center's map below. The redder the color, the higher the departure from normal.

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The position of Mars in the Cardinal Solar Ingress for the winter season had changed a bit by the beginning of February and is shown in the astro-locality map below.

Feb
Notice the white line representing Mars had also moved eastward just as the higher average temperatures had moved eastward as well.
I believe this was an important overlooked key that will make other future forecasts based on astrometeorology more reliable and accurate. Now it remains to be seen if this type of information will change the outlook for the next few winters as mentioned in my original post.

Hurricane Season 2011 Forecast Results

Hurricane Risk-Management

Texas Summer 2012

New Weather Alternative Website

Overview of UK Winter 2012-13

The Winters of 2011-14

Fulfilled Long-range Forecasts for Hurricane Season 2010

Introduction to the Weather Alternative