On 05/02/2016 21:48, Steve Willner wrote:
In article ,
R Kym Horsell writes:

Comparing times of new moon
versus full moon shows a statistically relevant difference of
in preciptation of a few percent.

Can you cite a source? I confess to some skepticism, but if the
effect is real, my first thought would be biology rather than
physics.

I am sceptical too but here is one source with references:

http://www-das.uwyo.edu/~geerts/cwx/...ap10/moon.html

There is a more recent climate related paper claiming a statistically
significant temperature to lunar phase correlation in satellite data but
not rainfall.

http://science.sciencemag.org/conten.../1481.abstract

It isn't totally implausible since the Earth will be very slightly
closer to the sun at full moon. The effect is tiny ~20mK

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Martin Brown