Fair weather always seems to play hard-to-get on weekends. During the work week, we toil under life-sucking fluorescent tubes, teased by the orgy of gorgeous solar photons just beyond the windows. But when the weekend arrives, too often it seems to bring gray, drooling skies with it.
Well, it’s not our imaginations, it seems… a 1998 study shows that it is significantly more likely to rain on a weekend than a weekday. To make matters worse, it’s appears to be OUR fault, because we insist on continuing to operate these internal-combustion monstrosities. Stupid climate karma.
From the article:
What’s more, the clouds are, to some extent, the product of the very jobs people are trying to escape.
The ASU researchers, who analyzed weather data dating back to 1946, say weekend storms probably are enhanced by air pollution spewed by millions of cars and trucks during weekday commutes.
The pollution generates tons of tiny airborne particles, called aerosols, that become the microscopic seeds around which rain drops develop.
Surely if that logic holds true, there should be less rain on the weekend as there are fewer airborne particulates to seed rain.
How about this logic: in any randomly occurring event, there will always seem to be a pattern. This it simply a fluke of randomness.
Ha, I work shift work, days and nights, and it still allways seems to rain on my days off!!!
godsgrandson said: “Surely if that logic holds true, there should be less rain on the weekend as there are fewer airborne particulates to seed rain.”
That would be true, except for that the particulates acumulate in the air until they get used, and it takes some time for enough to acumulate to form rain. My guess is that as soon as particulates are stopped from being added to the atmosphere, they slow down enough to allow water to condensate on them. So… Rain on the weekends.
kgy121 said: “That would be true, except for that the particulates acumulate in the air until they get used, and it takes some time for enough to acumulate to form rain. My guess is that as soon as particulates are stopped from being added to the atmosphere, they slow down enough to allow water to condensate on them. So… Rain on the weekends.”
I’d think it was more a question of characteristic time of water accumulation on the particulates, i.e. it takes about 5 days for particulates to condense enough moisture for it to rain, and then that rain takes any remaining particulates with it.
jchristman: The phenomena involved are related to cloud seeding, a proven technique for influencing precipitation. I would assume the study used a large enough sample size that a 22% deviation is statistically important. On the other hand, I always assumed it was observational bias – I only notice if it is raining when I want to go outside.
well theres only one way to fix that: four day weekends, or maybe two days on one day off and then three days on one day off or maybe we could figure out a six day week the possibilities are endless but one things for sure, something must be done.
Research may have shown that it rains more on weekends but their hypothesis as to the cause of that rain is untested. It’s little more than a guess.
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The problem with Enginerers is that they are so caught up in their diploma degrees that they forget grade school commen sense.
For a different occation I looked up >>precipitation
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