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39.48, -82.98 | So, what is the mechanism by which the full moon causes frost?
Now, clear skies are associated with cooler nights, so if you said stars cause frost, then I could at least see the connection. Heck, if you said "moonlit" nights, I could see how people might notice the moon more on a clear (and, therefore, cool) night. But to specify a full moon (presumably, clear or cloudy), then that requires some evidence.
And bear in mind that the moon is in the same phase everywhere. So if, by chance, your first frost is during a full moon, someone a couple hundred miles south did not get a frost. And someone a couple hundred miles north already had a frost.
This is one of those cases where extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, not anecdotes, superstition, or old wives tales. | |
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Any frost this morning?
