Ring around the moon, rain by noon
While sitting on my rooftop patio this evening, I noticed a large ring around the moon. Although it was quite a lovely site, the reasoning for it is not so lovely. According to Nasa:
The ring around the Moon is caused by the reflection of Moonlight from ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. The shape of the ice crystals results in a focusing of the light into a ring. Since the ice crystals typically have the same shape, namely a hexagonal shape, the Moon ring is always the same size.
More importantly, a ring around the moon is a sign of bad weather to come–rain or snow.
Some Web sites said the ring means the fairies are dancing, and others said the number of stars within the ring will predict the amount of days until bad weather.
I saw neither fairies nor stars, but I don’t have to be a scientist or a genius or a genius scientist to know rain is coming our way. Tomorrow. By at least noon. And for a minimum of 10 days, to be exact.
Welcome to fall, Seattle.
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Sweet. Tomorrow at noon is when I’m supposed to start moving.
Cool, thanks for posting. After I read this last night I noticed ring. It was awesome. Then I accidentally shot a flash from my camera into my neighbor’s window at 1am trying to take a picture of it.
YES! We saw it and it was quite beautiful not to mention peaceful. Both my younger daughter and I asked…”is this in the bible?” I was told that yes, it states there will be signs in the universe in the end times. I believe it will happen during our lifetime. We all have a duty to know what our obligation is during these times. Weather you believe in God or not…I wouldn’t want to be the ones that were wrong if I were you!!!
wow, Robin. thanks for the non sequitur. you might be interested to know that rings around the moon have been occurring for a very long time, have many folkloric associations regarding weather (in many cultures around the world), and have nothing whatever to do with any Biblical “signs in the heavens”.