2013 and forward
The 2013 forecast video is here.
Jan 1, 2013 (edited it January 9 for clarity): The purpose of this visualization is to say in advance what weather to expect if there is an Earth ring system.
In northern hemisphere, a cold and peculiar winter. After spring equinox, it will remain cold in northern hemisphere (NH) big mid-latitude landmasses until first week of May. That is about the time of a total solar eclipse, and for the same reason, it is when the shadow of a ring in the plane of the lunar orbit would flip over. Expect some weird weather last week of April as Moonring closes in. Late frosts because the shadow is deepening - until first week of May, but no more in mid-latitudes after May 6 (when it flips over). Just as it is flipping over, the shadow is deepest and coolest, along the narrow band that it shadows. For this reason first week of May, floods in eastern China, SE US, east coast of India (look at May 5 and think of that shadow driving cool wind outward - the wind crossing water onto those landmasses). Maybe then flooding in Caribbean and Hawaii. You look and you'll see why. After May 7 a change from oddly cold in Northern Hemisphere to oddly hot. Suddenly like an EL Nino type summer, hot and dry. Coastal flooding events are always possible because cooled water from south floats north after all... but continental centers mainly quiet and hot. Note: if there is a solar CME then expect dust and silicosis in N Hemisphere Meanwhile, though hot in North, unusual cold in Southern Hemisphere. Cold and peculiar, just like the one we are having and will have. In October it all flips back: Oct 21-30 cold is more intense in S Hemisphere midlatitudes as Moonring shadow gathers and prepares to flip north around the time of the solar eclipse. Late October: floods in Maritime Continent. Oct 31 floods from Jakarta to East Timor. Then shadow flips over to northern side (of ecliptic, not equator, look to understand) and advances north - flooding may go on but cold now advances to northern hemisphere (again, this is north of the ecliptic, not the equator). From November 7-10 forward, unseasonable cold and rain begin in NH big landmasses.
What the video shows: Visualization of Earth with two rings: one orbiting the center of the Earth in the equatorial plane and the other orbiting the Earth-Moon barycenter in the plane of the lunar orbit. Each one stretches from near earth to beyond the Moon. I do know the equatorial ring should not have much matter outside about 3Rearth, and that the lunar-plane ring shouldn't have much inside about 3REarth, but for now, this is fine.)
We Shall See !
