The feeling that it always rains at weekends may be more than just a myth about the weather.
New research shows weekends are wetter.
The cause, scientists suspect, is the build up of pollution during the week, resulting in rain at the weekend. We appear to be affecting global weather on a scale that is comparable to El Nino. Together with Robert Balling, Dr Cerveny examined rainfall in the Atlantic Ocean between 1979 and 1995 by analysing global satellite data. As expected the ocean as a whole was unaffected by which day of the week it was. But they found that the results were very different closer to the shore.