This time this year, the Full Moon will appear 14% bigger and 30% brighter. There's also a pretty good chance of cloud cover here, so we may not see it at all.
And, of course, the regular bunch of nuts insist that we're in for tsunamis, accelerated coastal ocean tides, earthquakes, floods and volcanic activity. Ehhh...
Whatever. Look to the skies, kids, around 7:30PM Moonrise, for a once in a two-decade event. I'll be out with you, walking Tasha.
Events in 1993:
March 13/March 15 – The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern U.S., bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba to Quebec; it reportedly kills 184.
April/October - The Mississippi and Missouri Rivers flood large portions of the American Midwest.
June 20 - A 7.5 earthquake hits Japan, killing 385 people.
July 7 – Hurricane Calvin lands in Mexico. It is the second Pacific hurricane on record to land in Mexico in July, and kills 34.
July 12 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake off HokkaidÅ, Japan launches a devastating tsunami that kills 202 on the small island of Okushiri, Hokkaido.
July - Severe floods hit South Asia, killing over 4,000 people in Bangladesh, India and Nepal.
August 6 – Torrential rain and mudslides kill 72 in Kagoshima, Japan.
September 15/September 21 – Hurricane Gert (1993) crosses from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through Central America and Mexico.
September 30 – An earthquake centered in Killari, Maharashtra, India kills over 10,000.
October/November -Wildfires in California destroy over 16,000 acres (65 km2) and 700 homes.
See? Pretty much your garden variety annual disaster stuff to blame on the Moon. Rest easy.
Hey: wait a minute. Record cold and snow in the Northern Hemisphere, earthquakes in New Zealand and off Japan, tsunamis in the Pacific leading to the Japan nuc disaster, volcanic activity around the Southern Hemisphere.
Crap. Might be something to this Moon thing...
