Weathered Questions 5.4

So we've been talking quite a bit here over the last several episodes about some more dramatic weather maybe that we have had or that we typically get.

But one of the things that we wanted to start off the show with today was a thought we left you on last time.

And that is those kind of more cyclical weather patterns or why you might get um repetitive weather oh like you why you might have two weeks of dry and then all of a sudden you have two weeks of just insane rain that just doesn't stop and maybe there's a month where every monday is sunny and every saturday is rainy and you can't you know you're stuck at work uh when it's nice out but you've got the weekend off and it's all cold and wet A lot of people observe those things.

And we wanted to talk a little bit more detail kind of as a follow-up to last episode of why that happens.

So take it away, Kai.

Yeah.

I mean, there are some times when it's just a matter of bad luck where we get stuck in a stretch and we can't break out.

We call those blocking patterns.

But if that's not happening, you know, there was a saying a long, long time ago.

It was right when I first started in TV that I first heard about it, but my parents knew about it.

So it's been going on a long, long time.

If it rains on Easter Sunday, it's going to rain every Sunday after that.

And some years it gets kind of like that.

And Easter is, of course, in the springtime.

And we don't tend to get what we call a whole lot of blocking in the spring.

It tends to go up and down.

And we tend to associate spring months in the United States with...

Snow is melting, but we can also get some extremes.

And it doesn't tend to stay the same for very long.

So that could have been where this entire saying originated from.

But at the same time, this takes us back to college.

And you had to do the same thing I had to do.

But I had a feeling that I had to probably use more pencil with it.

Maybe you had a little more electronics than I did.

But in one of our dynamics classes at Iowa State, we did something called the Wave Project.