Olympics Weather Forecast Results

On July 21st, I posted some forecasts for the London Olympics. Here are the results.

Forecast
July 27-29: These days seem to indicate a windy weather pattern. There are a number of indications of a warm, southerly air flow indicating warm or hot temps. It's not clear how much precipitation is involved. A low or front may set up off the east coast of England.

Results:
27th: Dry for most, though showers in the east. Feeling cooler.
29th: Sunny spells and showers, some heavy. Breezy and rather cool.
The following map is for the 28th and shows the cold front off the east coast of England as mentioned in the forecast. (All in all not a bad forecast. There was some wind, sun, precipitation, and the front off the coast.)


Forecast
July 31: Cool, dry weather

Results
31st: A mostly cloudy day. Rain at times this morning but also some drier interludes.

Forecast
August 2: Fair

Results
2nd: Dry for much of the morning with bright or sunny spells. Afternoon showers, mainly dry night.

Forecast
August 3: Increasing moisture brings a chance of rain.

Results
3rd: Dry start with sunny spells but showers will develop, especially from late morning, with some of them likely to be heavy for a time before easing during the afternoon. (Pretty good forecast.)

Forecast
August 4: Southerly winds, rising temperatures.

Results
4th: Some sunny intervals but also showers

Forecast
August 5: Fair conditions.

Results
5th: Further showers are expected, locally heavy at times. (Not good!)

Forecast
August 6-9: Breezy to windy, warm, dry conditions.

Results
6th: Tonight, becoming mainly dry
8th: Dry and warm with sunny spells.
9th: Dry with some warm sunshine inland
10th: Becoming breezy (Good one!)

Forecast
August 10-12: Southerly winds, warm temperatures, moderate humidity.

Results
10th: Continuing sunny and very warm.
11th: Mostly fine on Sunday.
12th: Increasingly cloudy with outbreaks of rain during Monday afternoon. (Not bad except for the last day.)

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Astrology and Predictions
An excerpt from Astrology News Service's interview with Nina Gryphon. Read the whole interview here.

ANS: You have a law degree. If you were to defend astrological truth claims in a court of law what might your best legal arguments be?

Gryphon: Any lawyer or politician will tell you that to win an argument one must be in control of definitions. The naming of things defines our reality, and thus contains great power. The first task, then, is to define “astrology” in such a way that gives us a chance defending its truth before an imagined objective court. So I would exclude from our definition astrology packaged as entertainment, such as mass media astrology columns. While these predictions may be entertaining, I would not be prepared to defend their accuracy in a court of law.
A working definition of astrology for our case could be: “A means of using celestial bodies to forecast future events.” If we can convince our judge to use our definition, and prove that astrology can perform according to its definition, then we will have won. If astrology can do better at predicting than its mainstream equivalent, this would be an added bonus.
Of course, astrology can be used for much more than just prediction, but predictions are easy to verify. So, our argument would rest upon being able to show that astrology is right a certain percentage of the time in a relatively unambiguous field, such as weather forecasting. Astro-meteorology has an illustrious history, with practitioners as well known as Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler. And there are many fine astro-meteorologists carrying on their work today. The added benefit of predicting the weather is that we can compare astrologers’ results with those of mainstream meteorologists. If astrology does better than the meteorologists, which I believe would be the case given the skilled practitioners, astrology would stand alone among the sciences. In either case, a world-view revision would be in order.

Fall Weather 2012: Central U.S.

Autumn 2012 will begin on September 22nd and end on December 21st. The long-range forecasts presented here are based on the Cardinal Solar Ingress chart of September 22nd when the Sun enters the astrological sign of Libra. This key chart places the planet Saturn on the Ascendant through the central U.S. Saturn starts out over Texas and the Central Plains states as shown below.

As the season progresses, it will move eastward over the Mississippi Valley until by the end of autumn it will be east of the Mississippi Valley over the East Central States and Deep South as shown below.

Generally, it will affect the weather in the central U.S. Saturn's influence on the weather when under adverse aspects by other planets corresponds to lower temperatures, low pressure (storm systems), east wind, and humidity. Good aspects to Saturn correspond to lower temperatures and fair weather. For most of the fall season, Saturn will be trine Neptune. This aspect has been observed to bring misty, gloomy weather in the lowlands but showery and cooler weather in the interior and higher altitudes.



We'll now look at the dates of some major aspects that Saturn will receive during the season and the type of weather that will most likely ensue.

Forecasts

Sept 30-Oct 1
Mercury will parallel Saturn now and the Moon will opposed Mercury and Saturn on October 1st. Saturn stretches from Texas to Minnesota. We should see increasing cloudiness, easterly winds, lower temps, and possible precipitation.

Oct 4-5
Mercury will parallel Neptune and conjoin Saturn. Around this time the central Plains should experience a southerly air flow first that increases temps and humidity. The weather then may turn cloudy with some possible rain and cooler temps.



Oct 9-10
Saturn's trine to Neptune is exact now. Cloudiness, night frosts. Misty or foggy, gloomy or cloudy, showery, lower temps through the Plains area.

Oct 15-19
Venus and Jupiter make adverse aspects to Saturn, and the Sun parallels Saturn. This represents a cold and stormy time for the Plains.

Oct 21-25

Cooler and stormy around the 21st. The Sun's parallel and trine to Neptune around the 23rd should increase southerly air flow and temperatures with perhaps mild or foggy conditions. Then, on the 25th when the Sun conjoins Saturn, things turn stormier most likely due to a cold front. 

Nov 1-2

Saturn now moves closer to the Mississippi Valley and receives an adverse aspect from Mars. This should result in atmospheric disturbance over the eastern Plains and Mississippi Valley. 

Nov 14-16

Saturn and Uranus now in aspect brings fair but cooler weather over the Mississippi Valley. 

Nov 24-26

Mars and Venus aspect Saturn over the Mississippi Valley. Some breezy conditions are shown along with a rise in humidity and temperatures followed by downpours after which things may turn cooler. 

Dec 13-15

The Sun's adverse aspect to Saturn may result in a cold front bringing rain to the Great Lakes area and east of the Mississippi Valley. 

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July 20-29, 2012, Forecast Results

The Weather Alternative post of June 3, 2012 contained long-range weather forecasts for the period of July 20-29, 2012. Let's look at how these forecasts turned out.


Forecast

The first forecast concentrated on the period between July 20-23. The forecast stated that the areas of the U.S. that had experienced severe weather during November 26-27, 2011 would now experience another round of severe weather since the same astrological set-up was being triggered again. Back in November the Upper Midwest and mid-Mississippi Valley were slammed by rain and snow, which then progressed on to douse eastern Tennessee and the Appalachians.

I thought we could expect an increase in moisture and temperatures over the Plains leading to storms bringing heavy rain. These would then continue eastward over the Mississippi Valley and Appalachians.

Results

By the 20th and 21st, weather forecasters were reporting on the sizzling heat that was gripping the Plains. Heat that drove temperatures 5 to 15 degrees above normal. A frontal boundary draped itself across the Tennessee Valley. The same area of the Upper Midwest that took a hit back in November was now under the gun again. On the 21st, the area from South Dakota to Wisconsin received 1 inch downpours. Once again, as in November, the mid-Mississippi Valley was hit with flash flooding due to drenching thunderstorms. Further south in the lower Mississippi Valley, Jackson, MS, picked up 2.55 inches of rain, more than half of what they get in a normal July. Severe downpours continued in the northern Plains on the 23rd.

Forecast

The next section of the forecast dealt with the period around July 26-27. A previous astrological set-up was also being triggered in this case. Severe weather was to be expected in the form of above-average rainfall over the Mississippi Valley and eastern U.S. similar to, but not as intense, as the heavy rains that hit the Mississippi Valley back in April and May of 2011.


Results

This first map for the 26th, shows the area of the central and eastern U.S. that were experiencing severe thunderstorms. The storms impacted millions and snarled air travel across the area.

This next map is for the 27th and shows the lower Mississippi Valley and eastern U.S. under the threat of storms that could produce small hail, strong winds, and torrential rain. My forecast also called for windy conditions over the Rockies, but none were reported.

Forecast

The last section of the forecast predicted tropical activity over the Lesser Antilles and in and around San Salvador in Central America.

Results

On July 28th, Accuweather reported that the tropics were once again coming to life after about a month of dormancy. A tropical wave was approaching the Lesser Antilles and arrived there on the 30th. It did not develop further. Not much developed over Central America except for moderate to strong convection over Panama and Costa Rica.

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Fall Weather 2012: The U.S. West Coast

This year the fall season will begin on September 22, 2012 when the Sun crosses the equator on its southward journey. An astro-locality map set for this time, shows a number of planets that are positioned over the Pacific Northwest and northern California and that will affect weather patterns over this area. The presence of Uranus and Pluto in a tight square along with Mercury promises a boisterous, stormy season when these planets are activated throughout the ensuing months. Following are some of the dates and brief descriptions of the weather to excpect at those times.

Sept 25-29, 2012
A very stormy weather system is expected packing high velocity winds and precipitation over the West Coast.

October 1-3, 2012
A cold and possibly windy high pressure area or front affects the region.

October 8-10, 2012
A cool, fair weather pattern.

October 20-21, 2012
Windy and stormy conditions.

November 1-3, 2012
A front or storm systems enters the area.

November 4-6, 2012
Southerly winds bring increasing temperatures.

November 14-15, 2012
Colliding air masses produce stormy conditions along the coast.

November 20-23, 2012
A windy and stormy system hits the area.

November 26-27, 2012
Cold, high pressure may collide with a warm, moist air mass and generate stormy conditions along the coast.

November 28-30, 2012
Stormy conditions continue along the coast as winds push inland.

December 13-17, 2012
Cold, high pressure and wind over the region.

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Fulfilled Long-range Forecasts for Hurricane Season 2010
Introduction to the Weather Alternative

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”—George Orwell

More On Texas Rain 2012

I've dedicated a number of posts over the last months to the need for rain in Texas. The key planetary influences during the spring and summer of 2012 have been Neptune and Jupiter. My first post back in November 2011, Texas Summer 2012, explained the role of Neptune and the Neptune-Jupiter square. Then in June of this year, I discussed how those predictions were being fulfilled in a post entitled Texas Drought Update. In July of this year, I posted the dates and places that will be affected by the Jupiter-Neptune square in a post called Jupiter-Neptune and Heavy Rain.


In this post we'll look at some dates when the Jupiter-Neptune configuration over Texas will be activated in August and September of this year. We'll discuss the likelihood of these aspects producing needed rain. Here is a look at the astro-locality map for the summer season with the positions of Neptune and Jupiter.
 Neptune's position is shown by the yellow line running along the 101st degree of west longitude, and Jupiter's position is shown by the black line running along the southern coast of Texas, across the Mississippi Valley and into the Great Lakes. These positions were activated recently by the Last Quarter Moon of July 10, 2012. The weather that ensued brought some good rain to southern Texas. The next map is a precipitation map for July 11, 2012. It shows the rain basically forming the same pattern the planetary lines do in the astro-locality map.
 

Forecasts
August 21-25, 2012
Around this time a number of important aspects are made to Neptune which include the parallel of Mars. This parallel aspect, exact on the 21st, increases temperatures and humidity, so we may be looking at a heat wave but with the potential to trigger thunderstorms. The Sun makes a contra-parallel to Neptune on the 22nd, which also increases temps and humidity. The big action happens on the 24th when the First Quarter Moon falls in square and opposition along with Venus' ses-square to Neptune. These aspect seems to have more power to increase, not only temps and humidity, but rain potential.

Sept 1-3, 2012
At this time, Mercury will oppose Neptune. This aspect also increases temperatures by inducing southerly air flows and increasing temperatures and humidity with the chance of precipitation.

Sept 6-8, 2012
Venus now will make a minor aspect to Neptune. At the most this should once again should bring sultry weather due to increasing temperatures and humidity.

Sept 16-18, 2012
Mercury aspects Neptune bringing southerly winds and higher temperatures.

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Long-range effects of the May 20, 2012 Solar Eclipse Part 2
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Hurricane Season 2011 Forecast Results
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New Weather Alternative Website
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The Winters of 2011-14
Fulfilled Long-range Forecasts for Hurricane Season 2010
Introduction to the Weather Alternative

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