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  • Location: just south of Doncaster, Sth Yorks
  • Location: just south of Doncaster, Sth Yorks

hi

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The man is alive and well it seems, even taking up earthquake predicting! Must be a friend of Piers perhpas?

Anyway the extract from a ltter to COL from New Zealand,

think most places/countries will have their fringe characters who delight in long range weather forecasting and who often have an enthusiastic following. New Zealand is such a place with the charismatic Ken Ring, often now known as the moon man. For many years he has published a Weather Almanac which deals in not just weather generalities but specific day by day forecasts for some 69 sites around the country which takes over 500 pages to relate. I was asked to review the Almanac for a NZ Lifestyle magazine which I did over 2010 and found it very wanting in accuracy. But eople still swear by it as a guide to the coming seasons and even specific forecasts. But for many he went a step too far when he entered the earthquake forecasting arena and stated that Christchurch would be hit by another, ' big one', on 20 March. This he based on the full moon and proximity to the earth plus other extra terrestrial movements. This prediction got immense media coverage and redictably caused great concern and trauma for residents of Canterbury and in particular Christchurch, many people left the City and the weekend of the 20th was a time of suppressed emotions. As it happened we had a flurry of 4 after shocks that evening culminating in a 5.1 magnitude quake at 10 pm that evening which did awaken the jitters. So far however nothing beyond the expected has occurred and it will be interesting how Ring fans react to such a prediction at such a time of stress and worry.

Back to the weather predictions as an example of how credibility is maintained. The Ring Almanac forecast the coldest winter 2010 on the national record beyond even the coldest ever in 1939. It turned out an above average winter temperature-wise but the event that is remembered is the big snowstorm in Southland in September which we are told Ring forecast. Actually he didn't but one of his forecast big snowstorms was mentioned for September but specifically for Canterbury north into Central North Island, Southland was not even mentioned as being affected.

As a result his credibility is unchallenged and his Almanac will live to see another year. No doubt time will erode the almost criminal forecast of another devastating earthquake for Christchurch on the 20 March 2011 into a credible forecast of an earthquake that ultimately occurred in Japan; after all it is not that far away is it?

Bob Crowder

Christchurch, New Zealand

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  • Location: Christchurch, NZ
  • Location: Christchurch, NZ

The man has supposedly been gagged with regards to his earthquake predictions. He did an interview the other day bemoaning the fact he's had to go into hiding, has been threatened with legal action and is no longer able to make earthquake predictions in public. The closed the interview with a prediction on the earthquake activity from April onwards.

I hear his producing an Almanac for Ireland this year? Good luck with that one.

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