Air pollution driving midweek rain
NASA has determined that air pollution provokes wetter weekdays and drier weekends in the southeastern US, with peak rainfall occuring late on Thursdays provoked by increased levels of airborne particles. That's the conclusion of a study of summertime storms using data collected from the agency's Tropical Rainfall Measuring …
Scientists discovered this kind of thing in the UK/Europe 30 years ago - but back then it was a dry midweek with a wet weekend.
Perhaps the switch from dry to wet is to be explained by global warming?
.. on the internet are made up.
From Q.I. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_QI_episodes_%28D_series%29#Episode_2_.22Discoveries.22)
"It rains the most on Saturdays, because of industrial activities over the week cause a seven day dust cycle."
Something isn't matching up here....
A long time ago I found a statistic that said historical averages meant that Thursday was the wettest day of the week... looking at rainfall stats since records began.
This may just apply to the UK though... and it made no reference to any correlation between barbecues and rainfall.
And, in the words of Arthur Dent: "It must be a Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays"
Now that the scare of global cooling is officially dead and that global warming is seemingly following the same fate (especially if our activities are causing rain), can we now look forward to the new 'scare' of global drenching?
<rolls eyes and walks off>
The latest stats are for a particular part of the USA and refer to a particular type of weather system.
Will someone please tell me when to drive my hummer to reduce the amount of rain that falls on my all night heated winter patio parties.
Wetter weekdays and dryer weekends, where's the frigging problem?
The question is; what can we do to enhance this beneficial effect?
It just means I get good weekend weather.
Swimming anyone?
"Bell says: "If two things happen at the same time, it doesn't mean one caused the other.""
While I'm sure most of us here already knew it, it's a nice change to see a scientist making this point for once, rather than sticking with the usual line that their conclusion must be fact.
