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New New Nowra Gold Mine Crag No More . . . 21-Jun-2013 At 10:47:32 AM bw

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On 21/06/2013 uwhp510 wrote:
>So apparently the weekly rain cycle is at least partly caused BY the working
>week, since the particulates from commuters car exhausts act as cloud seeders.
>
>From the ultimate source of all authority and knowledge... Wikipedia;
>
>"The fine particulate matter produced by car exhaust and other human sources
>of pollution forms cloud condensation nuclei, leads to the production of
>clouds and increases the likelihood of rain. As commuters and commercial
>traffic cause pollution to build up over the course of the week, the likelihood
>of rain increases: it peaks by Saturday, after five days of weekday pollution
>has been built up. In heavily populated areas that are near the coast,
>such as the United States' Eastern Seaboard, the effect can be dramatic:
>there is a 22% higher chance of rain on Saturdays than on Mondays."
>
>Good luck with that recalibration of the rain events away from the weekends
>:)

Yeah, my mate in munich swears this is the case up there too.