And what is their theory again? Best I can understand they're saying that because the moon will be at perigee and simultaneously a full moon that all hell breaks loose?
Cripplecreek notes that a full moon is a purely visual effect, or is it? It does say that the moon is in complete opposition to the sun, also, fwiw. I doubt that's really much different tidally/geomagically....but hey....ask the Puppeteers....
Did the Supermoon of 1993 have any effect of the Great Blizzard of 1993?
On Friday, March 12,1993 a cluster of powerful thunderstorms formed in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico, and then merged with a narrow band of snow and rain that was pushing in from the West Coast. The two storm systems collided with the jet stream, and by 7 p.m. they began screaming across the Gulf toward Florida, pushing a large storm surge ahead of their path.
“The sea conditions were absolutely incredible, unbelievable,” Coast Guard Petty Officer Rob Wyman told the Washington Post. “It looked like a big washing machine. There were huge waves and spray and hail.” The sea was so powerful that the 200-ft. freighter Fantastico sunk 70 miles off Ft. Myers, Fla.
Three people were rescued from the 50-mph winds and 30-ft. swells, but seven crew members died when Coast Guard helicopters ran low on fuel and had to return to base. “They were just getting the hell beat out of them,” Wyman said. “I felt for them. They were just holding on, either too weak to grab the basket or too scared to grab it ... We were so close, so close to getting these guys, and we did absolutely everything we could. And we couldn’t get them.”
Ten miles from Key West, the 147-ft. freighter Miss Beholding, hauling M&Ms and candy bars, ran aground on a coral reef. Several charter fishing vessels and sailboats sank in deeper seas. By the time the Superstorm had passed, the Coast Guard had deployed more than a hundred planes, helicopters and boats, rescuing 235 people on more than a hundred boats in the Gulf of Mexico.
Full moon and New moon include the concept
of “syzygy” with the sun/moon/earth in a straight
line. The gets either opposing gravitational pull or
a sum of moon+sun gravitation. At perigee for
the moon, it makes its greatest contribution. I’m
not certain when perigee occurs for the earth/sun
distance. Certainly an equinox puts the largest
diameter of the earth in line with the sun, thus
placing the surface closer.