In 1951, RCA made an amazing discovery. John H. Nelson, an RCA scientist, had been commissioned by the communications giant to find the cause of the magnetic storms that would unpredictably wipe out short wave radio signals thus resulting in great monetary loss both for the company and its customers. Nelson at first considered sunspots as the prime cause but wound up discovering that magnetic storms coincided with the position of the planets with respect to each other and the sun. Nelson successfully used this forecast method for years afterwards to issue, months in advance, accurate long-range predictions of magnetic storms until he left RCA in 1968.

His work independently confirmed Johannes Kepler's long-range weather forecast system. Kepler observed that planetary positions coincided with the formation of weather systems here on earth that in turn produced storms, droughts, floods etc. His first brush with fame came not because of his breakthrough regarding the planetary laws of motion but because of his accurate long-range weather forecast of the severe winter that put Styermark, Germany on ice in 1593. Because planetary cycles can be calculated months and years ahead of time, Kepler's method allows us to look further into the future than orthodox methods allow.

At present, conventional meteorology is unable to forecast the weather more than three days in advance. Even with the assistance of the largest weather computer in the world, whose lightning-fast calculations approach about 400 million per second, the results of these three-day forecasts are speculative its six to seven day forecasts are of no real value. Kepler's method may actually be a God-send in the wake of so many recent powerful weather catastrophes.

Long-range weather forecasts for November 2005 are now posted at the URL mentioned below. The long-range forecasts for April 2005 were 82 percent accurate. June's forecast accuracy was 81 percent, while July and August forecast accuracy was 64 and 88 percent respectively.

Ken Paone has been working with Kepler's long-range weather forecasting method for about 14 years. His published forecasts have appeared internationally. You can email Ken at . His long-range forecasts can be found on his blog at