Ken Ring

Ken Ring is a long range weather forecaster covering both Australia and NZ. He lives in Auckland, NZ and runs www.predictweather.com which is an active website used often by farmers, event-organizers, the public and even local TV weather anchors. He also has monthly columns in farming magazines, local newspapers and regular radio and TV spots in both countries.

In some farming communities, the expression "what does the Moonman say?" is becoming a household phrase. Ken's business comprises his family and a group of varied research assistants. As astrologers did in the past, each year his team writes an annual 'Predict Weather Almanac', which is published by Random House for NZ and sold in all bookshops.

Ken's astrology comes from C.C. Zain, George W. McCormack and old Vedic texts. Where an astrometeorologist might start with ingress charts for the Sun, Moon and inner planets, Ken starts a new forecast by converting the solar calendar back to a lunar one, working out his seasonal averages, then reconstituting them back to the solar calendar.

It was by accident that he stumbled on this method. For ten years throughout the 1970s Ken was living an outdoor life, surviving by fishing and hunting. As might be expected, he began noticing the patterns in nature. From that he wondered whether the weather also might be patterned. Getting little help from weather books Ken decided to do his own research, and the only source of information about Moon cycles was in the astrology section of libraries. This plunged him into astrology, ancient history and ancient stone circles like Stonehenge, which he believes were efficient weather calculators and planet-trackers for the purpose of climate prediction.

In the early 1990s Ken spent considerable time in the United Kingdom, surveying these structures and satisfying himself of their astrological orientation.

The arrival of the internet in the mid-90s enabled Ken to contact a wider world and share his knowledge with other long range weather forecasters. Through the internet he also found that scattered pockets of respectable research has already affirmed the Moon's role but this has not yet reached mainstream meteorology.

The next time you look up at the Moon remember that it's exact position recycles. Perhaps a particular severe rain or hurricane event will be repeated at least twice in your lifetime just as it may have done many times in the world's distant past.

--Ken Ring