High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ken Ring is a writer from Auckland, New Zealand, who has used lunar cycles to predict weather and earthquakes. He terms his predictions "alternative weather" and has authored books about the weather and climate. Ring publishes almanacs each year for New Zealand, Australia and Ireland in which he provides weather predictions for the entire year. His New Zealand almanac covers 64 towns and is usually one of the top ten selling non-fiction books. Ring`s methods are not supported by mainstream science and have been criticised by scientists.