‘It only rains on weekends’ revisted
June 18th, 2008, 3:21 pm · Post a Comment · posted by kylew
A couple of months back I wrote — out of frustration — a story highlighting stats that confirmed that most of the rainfall in 2008 to that point had occurred on Saturdays.
The experts I talked to chalked the numbers up to happenstance.
It turns out, those numbers probably went against science.
Our talented intern, Chayne Sparagowski, brought in an article that said in fact most rainfall occurs during the middle of the week. Reason: Factories and the like are open during the week, and the particulates they spit out make conditions more conducive to the formation of precipitation. These places not open on the weekend; therefore, less chance for rain to form.
Do you think it seems like all of the rains falls on a certain day of the week? Post your thoughts here.
