Rain again this weekend. Is Boston in a toxic relationship with the weather?
IT'S ALL SO TOTALLY UNFAIR!!!
'It should be a Saturday,' said Jennifer Hatch, a public sector worker on her lunch break, 'but it's Tuesday.'
She enjoyed the last of her slushie, and then it was time to head back to — where else — work. Another glorious day mediated through an office window.
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And making it all worse: the weekend washouts.
Since mid March
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On Wednesday, aka a WORK day, the sky hosted a hazy sun and the weather apps on our phones showed rain on Friday and Saturday and clouds for Sunday. 'Is this city gaslighting us?' asked a downtown employee.
Are the conspiracy warriors on Reddit right? Are we
There are different ways to answer the question. Just to get this out of the way, first let's hear from actual scientists.
The weekend rain is due to a 'variable weather pattern,' Globe lead meteorologist Ken Mahan told my colleague Ava Berger.
In 2023, when weekend rains were plaguing the East Coast, the New York City publication Hell Gate investigated.
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The take-away: The truth, as with the Karen Read case, depends on which expert you believe.
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BUT: In 2007,
Pink sticky notes form a message in a window of a sun-dappled office building on Congress Street. These days it seems like the work week is sunny and the weekends are rainy.
Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff
Which leaves us with alternative explanations: Maybe this is payback because our winter wasn't horrible, as NBC Boston meteorologist
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Or perhaps it's Trump! Not content to whack Harvard, now he's coming for our weddings, our golf games, our barbecues.
How long until he appoints a telegenic TV meteorologist to head a Department of Ha Ha No Fun on Weekends?
Whatever the reason for this terrible weather pattern, there are only two ways out:
Either Josh Kraft needs to vow that if we declare him mayor right now he'll reveal why it was all Mayor Wu's fault, and fix this immediately.
Or: anyone lucky enough to have a desk job will no longer even need to explain why they're wearing a bathing suit on the Zoom call.
In fact, hooky may already be on the rise. On Tuesday, as she lolled on a beach towel in the Public Garden, a Northeastern student confessed that she had called out sick from her job as a certified nursing assistant at a local hospital.
'The UV right now is like a 9 or 10,' she said by way of excuse.
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