Why it feels like it rains every weekend
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WBUR
4.2 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
If you feel like it's been raining a lot on the weekends this summer, you're not alone. A couple months ago, we noticed a thread on r/boston asking why? So, we enlisted the help of one of our WBUR colleagues, Climate and Environment Corespondent Barbara Moran to clear things up once and for all.
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| 1:18.5 | Music 646-456-9095 What's your official title? |
| 1:20.9 | Correspondent? Are you a correspondent? |
| 1:21.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.6 | Of climate and environment, which fine, that's a fine title. |
| 1:26.1 | But I always thought correspondence like went |
| 1:28.1 | somewhere. Joining us from a cubicle 50 feet away. Exactly. Yeah. |
| 1:34.8 | This is Barbara Moran. She is a colleague of ours here at WBUR where she corresponds on all |
| 1:41.6 | things environment. A few weeks ago, we gave Barb a mission. |
| 1:46.2 | We needed her to get to the bottom of a mysterious meteorological phenomenon that people |
| 1:51.5 | have been commenting on in the Boston subreddit. |
| 1:54.8 | That phenomenon? |
| 1:56.6 | Does it really? |
| 1:57.4 | Does it really rain every freaking weekend? |
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