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iluvseashore · #1 Postby **iluvseashore** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:07 am

Some of you may think this is a dumb question but I am trying to learn. Does a full moon have any effects on the tropics? As far as development I mean. I know it has an effect on tides. We don't have a full moon until Sept. 28th but just had me thinking.

#2 Postby **mascpa** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:14 am

I don't think a full moon has any effect on a tropical cyclone but I will defer to the professionals on this board.

kevin · #3 Postby **kevin** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:17 am

Not much with the tropics, but it does bring out werewolves.

iluvseashore · #4 Postby **iluvseashore** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:30 am

See....... I told you some of you would think it was a dumb question.
:lol:

Website · #5 Postby **Brent** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:31 am

No it doesn't as far as I know.

kevin · #6 Postby **kevin** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:31 am

Not a dumb question at all!

cswitwer · #7 Postby **cswitwer** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:35 am

I'm not pro, but I know that the moon phases effect tides... so maybe there is some effect that we just aren't able to measure?

I'm embarrassed to admit I've never checked to see if higher tides or spring tides correlate with certain moon phases, but if they do, then there probably is an effect when a storm comes to shore. Maybe?

chris

iluvseashore · #8 Postby **iluvseashore** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:35 am

OK!

Thanks for replying.

iluvseashore · #9 Postby **iluvseashore** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:39 am

So, basically only effects storm surge. Got it.

#10 Postby **hiflyer** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:39 am

interesting question....in this day of sat pix, radar, buoys, high speed computers we have lost of lot of our history and ability to read nature in regards to storms. it's pretty much fact that natives in the carib areas knew what was going to happen by reading signs...we know that they knew...we just do not know the 'how' they knew...we have lost that from our reliance of technology. so does the moon play a role? ask a native 1,000 years ago... :wink:

cswitwer · #11 Postby **cswitwer** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:46 am

Excellent point, hiflyer. Thanks! I forget to shed the cloak of technology myself sometimes. (Most times)

My 82 year old grandfather was a farmer, and he read all kinds of things into nature's coming and goings. I wish I'd learned more of them from him! He was quite good.

#12 Postby **Windy** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:52 am

Full and new moons mean the largest tidal effects -- thus, depending on whether a storm impacts a high or low tide, a full or new moon will have either make the storm surge as bad as possible or as weak as possible.

iluvseashore · #13 Postby **iluvseashore** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:55 am

That brings me to a rumor I heard about the local Indian tribes after Charley hit. Heard they think that minerals in this area cause stoms to steer away from the Tampa Bay area. I searched the net and came up with nothing on it. I don't personally believe it to be true but thought I'd add the the conversation.

cape_escape · #14 Postby **cape_escape** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 12:08 pm

iluvseashore wrote:That brings me to a rumor I heard about the local Indian tribes after Charley hit. Heard they think that minerals in this area cause stoms to steer away from the Tampa Bay area. I searched the net and came up with nothing on it. I don't personally believe it to be true but thought I'd add the the conversation.

I don't know about minerals per say, but my sister, who has lived in and near the Tampa area for over 20 years, tells me that there is a story that says that the Indians put a protective wall around the Tampa Bay area.... :idea:

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