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English 7:39 Science & Tech

Yes, It Really Does Rain More on Weekends

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For many of the years I lived in Boston,

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the springtime weeks were  full of clear, sunny skies.

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But every single weekend provided  soggy, miserable weather.

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What gives?!

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Is it just my imagination that every  single weekend it seems to rain?

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Were the rainy days more noticeable

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because they were interrupting my weekend plans?

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Did a weather god curse the  Northeast United States??

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Or is it some weird meteorological phenomenon?

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Funnily enough… it’s that last thing.

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Weather in New England can be oddly… punctual.

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So here’s the science of the rainy weekend curse.

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[Intro]

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Rain in the spring is no  surprise to North Americans,

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with “April showers bring  May flowers” and everything.

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But in 2023, 2024, AND 2025, Boston, New York,

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and the rest of the Northeastern US were stuck

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with beautiful, sunny work weeks  and overwhelmingly rainy weekends.

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In both 2024 and 2025,

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Boston received stretches of at least 6  consecutive rainy weekends in the spring.

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And from January through June,

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there were far more weekends  with rain than without.

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2023 was an especially wet year,

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bringing record rainfall all over the Northeast.

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And by October, in New York and Boston,

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only 12 out of 42 of the  year’s weekends had been sunny.

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That’s rain during 80% of weekends!

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At some point you start to think  that this can’t just be coincidence.

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So meteorologists took a deeper  look at the weather patterns

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trapping the Northeast indoors every weekend.

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