Many of us have thought that it seems to be cloudy during new moon, more often than not. Is this really true, or just sour grapes on our part as astronomy enthusiasts? I haven't found anything about it on the Internet yet (albeit after only a few minutes of searching), but I can offer this: The late Dick Proenneke, who lived alone in a wilderness cabin in Alaska for 30 years and kept voluminous notes during that time, felt that there was indeed a relationship between moon phase and weather. He noted often that clear weather coincided with the days surrounding full moon. "Dark of the moon", as he called it, usually meant storms. In fact he was surprised on those few occassions when the conditions were reversed. He made reference to the native people's belief in the same relationship of lunar phase to weather conditions. I'd be interested in seeing some actual statistics for a given geographic location, if anyone wants to either pull the data together themselves, or find it already done on the Internet somewhere.