| In 1951, RCA made an amazing discovery. John H. | | | | severe winter that put Styermark, Germany on |
| Nelson, an RCA scientist, had been commissioned | | | | ice in 1593. Because planetary cycles can be |
| by the communications giant to find the cause of | | | | calculated months and years ahead of time, |
| the magnetic storms that would unpredictably | | | | Kepler's method allows us to look further into the |
| wipe out short wave radio signals thus resulting in | | | | future than orthodox methods allow. |
| great monetary loss both for the company and | | | | At present, conventional meteorology is unable to |
| its customers. Nelson at first considered sunspots | | | | forecast the weather more than three days in |
| as the prime cause but wound up discovering that | | | | advance. Even with the assistance of the largest |
| magnetic storms coincided with the position of the | | | | weather computer in the world, whose |
| planets with respect to each other and the sun. | | | | lightning-fast calculations approach about 400 |
| Nelson successfully used this forecast method for | | | | million per second, the results of these three-day |
| years afterwards to issue, months in advance, | | | | forecasts are speculative; its six to seven day |
| accurate long-range predictions of magnetic | | | | forecasts are of no real value. Kepler's method |
| storms until he left RCA in 1968. | | | | may actually be a God-send in the wake of so |
| His work independently confirmed Johannes | | | | many recent powerful weather catastrophes. |
| Kepler's long-range weather forecast system. | | | | Long-range weather forecasts for November |
| Kepler observed that planetary positions coincided | | | | 2005 are now posted at the URL mentioned |
| with the formation of weather systems here on | | | | below. The long-range forecasts for April 2005 |
| earth that in turn produced storms, droughts, | | | | were 82 percent accurate. June's forecast |
| floods etc. His first brush with fame came not | | | | accuracy was 81 percent, while July and August |
| because of his breakthrough regarding the | | | | forecast accuracy was 64 and 88 percent |
| planetary laws of motion but because of his | | | | respectively. |
| accurate long-range weather forecast of the | | | | |