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RAIN SLOWS DOWN ON WEEKENDS IN SOUTHEAST
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Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
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April 1, 2008
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The effect of work-week pollution on weekly weather patterns has been a topic of research for some time. Providing new evidence that bolsters a pollution-precipitation connection, recent rainfall data recorded from space indicate that summertime storms in the southeastern United States shed more rainfall midweek than on weekends.
The findings, from NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite (TRMM), are from a study led by Thomas Bell, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He and his colleagues reported their results in a January issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres.
What they found was that midweek storms tend to ...