17/07/2025
Really interesting read. 😊
Floods and rain due to Moon
It is with interest that we note that 2025 is the year of maximum lunar declination, in other words the orbit of the moon reaches 28° latitude north and south each month, in comparison with 18° some 18 years earlier and later. This is also called Major Standstill, and was a very much celebrated time many centuries ago, but now receives this no mention in all the world’s media.
All stone circles are set to receive the major standstill, for it represents a time of severe heat-related conditions in the northern hemisphere its summer months (28°S) and severe cooling in the winter (28°N). This would be worsened if it was also the year of solar minimum, but we are fortunately (as of this and next year) close to the solar maximum, which could have produced more severe events.
In terms of cold, Mount Cook Aero, New Zealand, registered -12.9°C at 656 MASL, only 2°C from the all-time record. At the South Pole, Vostok’s –80.2°C reading stands as the coldest reliably measured temperature on Earth in 2025. The coldest it has ever been was -89° C, in 1983.
NZ and S Australia are not the only places to experience high rainfall in recent months. There has been extensive rainfall in several US states, leading to unprecedented floods as seen in Texas. Severe flooding in Lviv, Ukraine has occurred after 110 mm of heavy rainfall on July 10, 2025. These, have occurred in the northern hemisphere. They have obviously followed evaporation due to extreme heat. So where have these heat waves occurred?
Europe, Asia, and North America have recently been grappling with record-breaking heatwaves and unprecedented warmth. e.g Izium, Ukraine, +39.9°C, so far the hottest day in their history, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, hit 36.7°C — their hottest July temperature on record. Heatwave in the UK: England should see very rarely +36/+37°C, Scotland +31/32°C July 12th 2025, and the next +40°C heatwave in Continental Europe next week.
The current heatwave could be one of the most significant temperature peaks in UK history, prompting the usual questions about climate resilience, emergency preparedness, and long-term planning by people with no knowledge or curiosity about the moon.
As usual, climatologists in both hemispheres are saying that climate change is responsible, which is a lie, and a vague way of justifying your existence. In truth, they cannot point to El Niño because absolutely nothing is happening with respect to that, and yet a significant heatwave is currently impacting the US, with numerous cities breaking records and experiencing triple digit heat. The heat is so intense that it has led to mass casualty events, with hospitals treating dozens of people for heat -related illnesses.
The media is playing down the unusual heat waves, and instead just covering the flooding, whilst ignoring the cause of the massive rains that preceded floods. But if researchers were to look at the last times there were Major Lunar Standstills, i.e. 2006, 1987, 1969, 1950, 1932, and 1913, there were similar heavy falls and flooding, all over the world. And looking ahead, 2043 and 2062 represent future years of similar weather.
That is the reason that ancient cultures, who kept track of their major standstills because they were represented by huge rock structures, and they had time to move to higher ground over this period. The four Station Stones at Stonehenge align with two of the Moon’s extreme positions. The major lunar standstill is when the northernmost and southernmost moonrise and moonset are furthest apart.
On a major lunar standstill, the moon rises and sets in a place on the horizon that the sun never reaches. For people who track the movement of the sun across the year – such as farming communities who use horizon calendars for planting and harvesting – the appearance of the moon further north and south than the extremes of the sun would have been highly significant, and a warning that extreme weather was on its way.
Would you bother to organise a whole village, to shift 20 ton stones, unless you were sure, to show where the moon was viewable from the viewer platform of the slaughter stone?
(pic; the MS moon as viewed through the trilithon at Stonehenge, once every 18.6 years).