IEM Daily Feature
Friday, 18 April 2014

Seven Sundays of Rain?

Posted: 18 Apr 2014 05:37 AM

A saying in weather folklore is that if it rains on Easter Sunday, it will rain for the next seven Sundays after. With rain forecasted this Sunday, the featured chart investigates if this saying is true. The two series of values show the frequency of measurable precipitation after an Easter Sunday with rain and for all Easter Sundays. You can see that the frequencies for precipitation after an Easter with precipitation are no higher than for all cases and they are much less than 50%. Three years had five out of the seven Sundays with precipitation after a wet Easter. Those were 1883, 1884, and 1961.

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Tags:   folklore   easter