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11/03/2010
Daily Weather Blog 11 March
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Watch Ken in live in the flesh each day!
Today's clip for 11 March 2010.
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10/03/2010
Daily Weather Blog Archive
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Watch Ken's daily youtube forecasts.
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08/03/2010
Extreme weather not yet in the news
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Here you'll get what we think is going to happen a whole month beforehand. You'll be told about it before any other metservice or news channel.
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02/03/2010
The tsunami and the moon
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An earthquake near Chile measured 8.8 on the Richter scale. It was shallow enough to send a ripple across the ocean towards NZ. Tsunami risks for NZ only come from the east. It is no coincidence that the moon is far closer to us right now.
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26/02/2010
Welcome to our new website
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On this website you will not find descriptions like "it was warmer because there was high pressure". We will tell you the real reasons for weather events, and mostly they are due to the position of the moon. Some call it astrology but it is really an older form of astronomy. There are many articles here about how the moon does it; basically the same pulling force that hauls tides also hauls air. The ideas may sound new but they are actually very old.
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26/02/2010
Ireland and UK weather
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The best summer weather is likely to be short this year, spanning only from the last part of May to early June and from the last week in June to mid July.
There should be plenty of rain again, but at least some summer days when they are usually expected.
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26/02/2010
The Fishing Archive, updated weekly
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Ken Ring is on Radio Live B Sport with Geoff Thomas and Andy Baker, every Saturday morning at 7.55am. It started at the end of July 2009. Transcripts will be posted here after the interviews.
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26/02/2010
Australia Outlook for March
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Weather expectations for the month ahead. This includes all states and some capitals.
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26/02/2010
The Moon and the Water Table
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When the tide is high at the coast it is also high in the water table under the ground. By keeping an eye on the tidal variation we can determine how much to irrigate plants.
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26/02/2010
March Outlook for NZ
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March should be drier, sunnier but cooler than normal for both islands. Read on.
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26/02/2010
Queensland Outlook
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Now that summer is ended people are wondering what is in store for the State in months to come. Cairns is safe and in for a lot of rain, but after April other areas may be parched.
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25/01/2010
The turning of the tide
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The world's leading economies, who couldn't agree on any actual policy on climate change at the G-8 Summit in Italy last July, opted instead to command the clouds, the seas and all of the Earth to cool, with a decree “the increase in global average temperature above pre-industrial levels shall not exceed 2 degrees [Celsius]”. Doesn’t this sound a bit like the vain attempts of King Canute to stop the waves?
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25/01/2010
Why The Drought Is nearly Gone
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More evidence that the Australian drought is nearly over can be found by looking at the timing of past droughts, and identifying a pattern. So, lets get to grips with the El Nino / La Nina oscillations.
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25/01/2010
Whither our weather
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Those whose livelihoods depend on the weather in NZ know that there are two major systems that contribute to our climate. But the shape of continents, latitude and the distribution of ocean currents are also contributors.
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25/01/2010
Is The Weather Fickle, or Just the Forecasters?
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The country’s meteorologists seem to be reacting to weather rather than predicting it and saying its getting more unpredictable. Should we now wait nervously for the next lot of bizarre weather behaviour to descend on us? Lets not forget the Grand Weather Cycles…!
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25/01/2010
Here Comes The Sun (spots)
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The tide of increased electromagnetic intensity on the Sun is stirring back into life. Black mole-like marks called ‘sunspots’, in reality regions of strong magnetic field, are re-gathering on the Sun's surface after a long absence.
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25/01/2010
Times and tides
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Not only do the oceans have tides, but the Earth (Land) also does, with a visco-elastic deformation of the earth under the action of the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun. Here are some observations and folklores to think about.
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25/01/2010
Threat to Freedom: global warning
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The world is now divided between those who think Nature causes weather and those who believe that man and his emissions are responsible for all the current catastrophes and that and freakish weather was never experienced before. Why is open debate not allowed anymore?
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24/01/2010
The Stick
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There is the real world that we live in, and there is the fantasy mathematical/computer dream world of Alice in Wonderland that climate scientists inhabit. The day the globe warms will be the SAME day that you find you are able to dip the end of a long stick in the water and make the sea rise up like a huge tsunami causing a global catastrophe.
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24/01/2010
The Moon and You
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The moon pulls the water, the air and even the land by gravitational force. But what about the moons forces upon us, our internal “weather”? Does it influence our psyche?
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24/01/2010
Stopping Climate Change
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The call to arms at the moment is that "we must stop climate change". While we are at it we might also want to stop earthquakes, volcanoes and possibly the rotation of Earth, for all those contribute to the change of climate. So, what else do we need to do to stop “climate change”?
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24/01/2010
South Canterbury Weather 2009
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With all the current talk about the environment, climate change and future extreme weather being the single most important issue facing mankind, the alarmists in the National Weather Office are strangely silent when it comes to what Mother Nature has in store for Canterbury and S Canterbury just for next year. Here are some extracts from Ken Ring's 2009 NZ Almanac as to what he thinks may be in store for the region.
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24/01/2010
Some level-headed thinking please
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The predicted increase in sea-levels keeps rising, with each scientific body trying to out-do the other with more and more preposterous claims. So, how can each of them be correct when there is no consensus amongst any of them?
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24/01/2010
Whether or not to shoot the messenger
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As political commentators do occasionally get elections wrong, and doctors can make wrong diagnoses, so it is at times with weather forecasts. Here is a discussion about some of the pitfalls in this business known as weather prediction.
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24/01/2010
Sea and Air
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Computer modeling allows us to invent a different story by manipulating data to create trends… Has the IPCC been making up evidence? Lets compare the carbon footprints of a plane to that of a snails slime trail…
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24/01/2010
Returns of a Cold Sun
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A time travel adventure across New Zealand shows that the 36 year Sun tide cycle may not bode well for winter of 2010, which looks rather frighteningly like the winter of 1939 returning. Temperatures in the world are always tied to solar activity.
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24/01/2010
Plastic bags get a bad wrap
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The late George Carlin said God made everything useful he could think of but met His match with plastic, which is why it is not found anywhere in Nature. So he invented humans, just to get the plastic. So, lets look at the issues surrounding disposable nappies, plastic bags etc and compare to "greener" options.
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24/01/2010
Perigees on the move
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Extreme weather events that wreck havoc - why? The answer lies in the Moon's declinations and perigees.
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24/01/2010
Is oil running out – or in?
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Are we being screwed by the oil companies, big time? Do they create false shortages so they can raise prices however they wish?
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24/01/2010
History of Modern Weather Forecasting
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A look at the foundations of weather forecasting techniques from the late 18th century onwards.
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23/01/2010
Reason for the Season
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When the Full Moon is in southern declination - what can we expect?
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23/01/2010
Yawning and sleeping to spread awareness about climate change
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Perhaps like me you are becoming tired of the alarmism about climate change and global warming.
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23/01/2010
The Year The Moon Stands Still
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Lunar standstill is the ancient name given to the time the moon reaches its maximum declination after 18.6 years. Callanish plots this slow progress, building to a crescendo in the 19th year at the lunar standstill - when the path of the moon is so low that it seems to walk along the horizon before setting within the stone circle.....
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22/01/2010
FREE Rain Maps For Your Country
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Indicates cloud cover with the potential for rain/moisture. May otherwise manifest as dew, frost, haze, mist, fog or light drizzle.
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02/10/2009
The 18.613 yr cycle
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Earlier in the week Campbell Live on TV3 discussed erosion due to higher-than-normal tides on the West Coast as proof of global warming, with the fears now by the mayor and residents that the sea will keep coming in year after year unidirectionally, swallowing first the houses, then the road, the whole town, and finally the Alps. Utter bollocks. Anyone serious about rising seas this year or erosion clearly do not understand the tidal cycle. 18.6 years ago the tide heights were the same.
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02/10/2009
Moon on the move
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Declination is when the moon changes latitudes every 13 days. Taking the equator as starting point, after 7 days the moon is over Japan, over the next 7 days the equator, 7 days later over Brisbane and 7 days later back to the equator. In just one day, the distance traveled is equivalent to Oamaru to Blenheim.
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02/10/2009
Moon Facts
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The moon has not been in the news lately, but perhaps it should have been. On October 26 it was the closest to earth for the whole year and on 24 November the second closest.
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02/10/2009
Looking ahead to 2009, Ken Ring’s new book
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Longrange weather columnist Ken Ring is author of the new Predict Weather Almanac 2009(Random House publishers), and here he looks ahead for the whole country, for this rest of the year and beyond.
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02/10/2009
Imagine no global warming, it's easy if you try..
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Imagine if there was no climate change and no global warming and no problem to panic over. Imagine if the oceans were not really rising at a dangerous rate, and that when we went to the beach the tide simply came in and out as it has always done, and reached the same high water marks.
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02/10/2009
If there was no moon
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Would the Earth's weather be any different if the moon didn't exist? French physicists modeling the stability of the tilt of the Earth's spin axis have shown that our planet should have experienced dramatic and chaotic changes in tilt over its lifetime, as have the other terrestrial planets.
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02/10/2009
Hot Summer Moon
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Whether conscious or not, climatology still distances itself from any working association with the pagan Moon, still so worshipped in other cultures for the cyclic measurement of the seasons that it used to provide.
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02/10/2009
Where is the best place to be these hols?
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Ken Ring, longrange forecaster, has these hints for those wondering where to go chasing sunshine and calm days this summer.
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01/10/2009
Hawkes Bay Weather Diary
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Longrange forecaster Ken Ring, author of the popular Predict Weather Almanacs, tells us what may be in store for Hawkes Bay over the remainder of the year.
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01/10/2009
Has Meteorology Taken a Wrong Turning?
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The Australian Weather Bureau is currently facing an inquiry into why weather is not being predicted to the satisfaction of the country’s taxpayers and farming groups.
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01/10/2009
Greenhouse Horse Pucky
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So much has been written now about emissions and global warming that these days hardly anyone bothers to challenge the basic science behind it all. But let's tackle this old chestnut of the so-called greenhouse effect whereby the heat from the earth reflects down from the greenhouse cover made by greenhouse gases, especially from emissions from cars and factories, and this makes the world steadily hotter.
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01/10/2009
Global warming, I don’t think so
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As I look out my window I see no evidence of global catastrophe. Rita and Katrina were supposed to be the start of more and stronger hurricanes, yet this has been the lightest year on record for US storm events. 1998 was the 6th hottest year, but the world has been cooling since. Antarctica has been thickening for the past 20 years and ice banking up has caused breakaway lumps, some appearing on our east coast in November. The Tasman glacier has been advancing since 1996. NZ had the coldest June since 1972, then a windy spring and a cold start to summer. A warmer world?
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01/10/2009
Global Warming in a Flat-Earth
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Global temperatures are supposed to be rising. According to the Greens humans have been responsible and so are responsible for fixing it.
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01/10/2009
Gentlemen, Place Your Bets..
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The trading game is about to start. The World Bank and International Monetary Fund(IMF) act out of the UN. So does the International Panel for Climate Change(IPCC).
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01/10/2009
Frozen is more normal
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We hear much about how "fragile" or "delicate" the Earth and its climate are now considered to be, and how very easily we can go beyond "tipping point".
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01/10/2009
Floods not unusual
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"A hypothesis is always preferable to the truth,
for we tailor a hypothesis to fit our opinion of
the truth, whereas the truth is only its own
awkward self. Ergo, never discover the truth
when a hypothesis will do." -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (1513).
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01/10/2009
Environmentalists endanger the planet
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If an honest man is wrong, after demonstrating that he is wrong, he either stops being wrong or he stops being honest. - Anon
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01/10/2009
El Nino Explained
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El Niño and La Niña have a simple explanation. There are only two basic points to remember.
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01/10/2009
El Ni or No
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In its 3-month 'forecast' issued in early September, NIWA said: "El Nino may bring less rain, early frosts".
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01/10/2009
The Eclipse
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"the sun went behind the moon which is why the moon had clips on it" - my three year old grandson Remy
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01/10/2009
A dry winter
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This coming winter appears to be one that may go down as one of the driest on record for many South Island districts.
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01/10/2009
Does Mercury drop the mercury?
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On November 9th, the tiny spot moving across the face of the Sun wasn't some newly discovered weird roving sunspot. It was Earth's sister planet Mercury in a totally predictable transit in front of the Sun.
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01/10/2009
Does China's pollution affect the planet?
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Is there any truth to the media commentary at the moment about Beijing smog and soot, and some environmentalists have been linking pollution in that city to their global warming concerns and the threat to the planet?
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01/10/2009
Do Planets have Weather?
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“When the trees and leaves are rustling it makes the wind” - Emma (7)
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01/10/2009
Can we change the weather?
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An interesting way to look at our effect on the weather
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01/10/2009
Blame The Weather On The Moon
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Ken Ring has been called NZ’s only true longrange forecaster. Using the orbits and phases of the moon he claims to be able to determine weather infinitely ahead.
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01/10/2009
Ken Ring, the Moonman, and lunar science
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Ken Ring is perhaps Australia and NZ's only published longrange weather forecaster.
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01/10/2009
An Inexact Science
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Scientists are partly to blame for calling weather forecasting a 'science'.
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01/10/2009
A hard winter is in the bag
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The late George Carlin said God made everything useful he could think of but met His match with plastic, which is why it is not found anywhere in Nature. So he invented humans, just to get the plastic..
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