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DocTurtle
02-12-2008, 06:45 AM
I found this in the little links at the bottom of the page. Thanks Dk. All I have to say is, they have obviously never been to Oki. lol.

By LiveScience Staff

Weekdays bring heavier downpours than weekends, suggests new research.


Summertime storms in the southeastern United States shed more rainfall midweek than on weekends, the study found. The cause could be the air pollution created by the daily grind—traffic and business operations.


The study was carried out by atmospheric scientist Thomas Bell of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and his colleagues. They looked at data collected by NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite from 1998 to 2005. This method has advantages over rain data collected with ground-based gauges that can vary from one gauge site to the next.

They found it rains on average more between Tuesday and Thursday than from Saturday through Monday. The clearest day of the week was Saturday, with nearly twice the rainfall on the wettest day, Tuesday afternoon.

http://green.yahoo.com/news/livescience/20080201/sc_livescience/studyitrainslessonweekends.html
hankypanky
02-12-2008, 06:59 AM
that's sure true about oki, typhoons hit on weekends also!
DocTurtle
02-12-2008, 07:04 AM
Only on weekends and 96's. :p
hankypanky
02-12-2008, 07:05 AM
of course!
swindland
02-12-2008, 07:13 AM
LOL!!! they should come to oki and do there scientific reports hehehhe
socalheart
02-12-2008, 08:03 AM
Not to rain on your parade, but they did state it was the states. :p Yes, I know, shameful use of a pun.

It always rains on a weekend in the summer here. If we're very lucky, we get a typhoon during a holiday weekend... as previously stated, but I said it better, of course. :D
DocTurtle
02-12-2008, 08:04 AM
:argh14::argh3::argh14:Boo to you socal, boo to you.:argh14::argh3::argh14:
You weren't suppose to actually READ the article. Just skim over the headline and throw stones like normal people. :p lol
P_chan
02-12-2008, 05:45 PM
They must have left out okinawa in their study.
Maggie
03-19-2008, 10:13 PM
I found this in the little links at the bottom of the page. Thanks Dk. All I have to say is, they have obviously never been to Oki. lol.



http://green.yahoo.com/news/livescience/20080201/sc_livescience/studyitrainslessonweekends.html

Or Ireland and Scotland.:(

Maggie