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Cortney1982 · Chanel

Please help me clear this up!

Christine · Coach

It is often extra-cold when there is no moon out, but it's for a different reason - when you cannot see the moon, it's almost always due to cloud cover, and clouds help keep the temperature up at night. Clear, cloudless nights are generally colder for that reason. I actually heard my weather guy say this yesterday!

kenzie · Chanel

I ran a google search and this is what I found:

"The Earth does receive some heat from the Moon. Some of it comes from the inside of the Moon, and some comes from reflected heat from the Sun. The fuller the Moon appears, the brighter it appears, so there is a correlation between the amount of reflected light and heat and the phase of the Moon. However, the amount of sunlight and heat that is reflected by the Moon to the Earth is about half a million times less than the amount of sunlight and heat that we receive directly from the Sun, so the heating by moonlight is not important in the least."

small fry · Chanel

well not highjack this post but this is some cool info. Iam going to use this for my son since he is always asking about different things

NCshopper · Hermes

Yeah, I think what Nyla said is probably on target. I'm sure we probably get a little bit of heat from the moon and likewise it probably gets a little bit of heat from us. But I can't imagine that we'd get enough heat from the moon to make clouds evaporate.

Nice try though!!!

ILoveChoo · Hermes

NCshopper wrote:

Yeah, I think what Nyla said is probably on target. I'm sure we probably get a little bit of heat from the moon and likewise it probably gets a little bit of heat from us. But I can't imagine that we'd get enough heat from the moon to make clouds evaporate. Nice try though!!!

yeah, but even that heat (what little of it there might be) would still indirectly be from the sun. The sun is a big ball of fire- it gives off heat. The moon is a big rock- not so much with the heat, aside from what is reflected off it from the sun.

mikacat · Coach

I thought I learned in grade school, the sun was for heat (even at night, we still get heat from the sun) and the moon controlled the tides in the ocean for some reason.

mikacat · Coach

A Few Facts About Lunar Tides

The gravitational force of the moon is one ten-millionth that of earth, but when you combine other forces such as the earth's centrifugal force created by its spin, you get tides.
The sun's gravitational force on the earth is only 46 percent that of the moon. Making the moon the single most important factor for the creation of tides.
The sun's gravity also produces tides. But since the forces are smaller, as compared to the moon, the effects are greatly decreased.
Tides are not caused by the direct pull of the moon's gravity. The moon is pulling upwards on the water while the earth is pulling downward. Slight advantage to the moon and thus we have tides.
Whenever the Moon, Earth and Sun are aligned, the gravitational pull of the sun adds to that of the moon causing maximum tides.
Spring tides happen when the sun and moon are on the same side of the earth (New Moon) or when the sun and moon are on opposite sides of the earth (Full Moon).
When the Moon is at first quarter or last quarter phase (meaning that it is located at right angles to the Earth-Sun line), the Sun and Moon interfere with each other in producing tidal bulges and tides are generally weaker; these are called neap tides.
Spring tides and neap tide levels are about 20% higher or lower than average.
Offshore, in the deep ocean, the difference in tides is usually less than 1.6 feet