Super Moons have taken place in 1955, 1974, 1992, and 2005. These years have had their share of extreme weather conditions and natural disasters, but it is hard to link these to the Super Moon. A search of the internet reveals that a few people are predicting major environmental events, like earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic activity and strange weather patterns for March 19th's Super Moon.
According to NASA and NOAA, the most noticed effect of the Super Moon could be a higher tide, between 1 and 6 inches higher than normal. Does this necessarily mean chaos is coming?
Richard Nolle, a noted astrologer, has been quoted as calling the moon on March 19, an "Extreme Super Moon." Nolle states, when a moon goes to Super-Extreme, chaos will ensue. Storms, earthquakes, volcanoes, and other natural disasters will wreck havoc on our Earth.
If you haven’t yet bought supplies for a chaos event, should we run out now and do so? I’ll let you be the judge of that, as for me, I still have supplies left over from the Y2K nonsense. ;)
I’m not going to immediately discount Nolle, in fact, there may be a scientific basis for a prediction like his. NASA and NOAA both say that the tides will be an inch or so higher than normal. It’s the weight of the water on the sea floor that keeps the fault lines together. With less weight, at low tide, on the fault lines, it may make it easier for the faults to slip and cause an earthquake. Same can be said for high tide, the extra pressure on the sea floor could cause the same event.
As for extreme weather, there has been no correlation between Moon perigee and weather patterns. I will say that whatever the weatherman has already forecast will probably happen, but don’t take my word for that.
I am hoping for clear skies in my area. The moon should be beautiful to look at, even if volcanoes are erupting and the earth is shaking under my feet.
I wanted to add, my thoughts and prayers go out to the good people of Japan. May recovery be swift and complete.
