It's the Bryan Lair show on WNLIC. Good morning again everyone. You know I've lost track

of how many rainy weekends we've had in a row but I think it's been every weekend since

first Ophelia hit us on September 23rd and now there's at least one more ahead this

weekend according to my weather app. So we're curious is there a seven day weather pattern that

has trapped us in this cycle? Is there a climate change connection? For our climate story of the week

which we're doing every Tuesday all this year on the show we're going to try and get a handle on

this now. We're joined by Andrew Kruch Kiewicz, a research scientist meteorologist and expert

in extreme weather and flooding at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society which is

part of Columbia University's climate school where they try to bring together social science,

climate science and public policy. Andrew thanks for coming on for this welcome back to WNLIC.

Thank you Bryan. Great to be here. So we do seem to be in a seven day weather pattern with clear

skies on weekdays and rain on weekends or especially Fridays and Saturdays. Is that a pattern

that happens in this area that maybe we don't notice when it rains on a series of Wednesdays

or just bad luck? Yeah I mean there is there is ongoing research you know on these weather patterns

and not only the link to climate change but just what makes the weather in the New York

New York City area so special and there's not really let's say a seven day pattern per say you know

there are definitely times of the year where we tend to see these cycles where we tend to see either

one storm a week or two storms a week but technically I would say more in the fall in the spring we are

more likely you know to get stuck in these sorts of patterns and there are reasons for that as we

transition between seasons but yeah there's not really a climate connection with this I think

overall it's mostly just a little bit of bad luck. You and your colleagues at Columbia Climate

of School did predict a rainier fall I see back in August I guess you couldn't tell it all happened

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