Rain Gods

I am contemplating the idea that my parents may be rain gods.

Douglas Adams featured a rain god named Rob McKenna in his book So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish:

Rob McKenna was a miserable bastard and he knew it because he’d had a lot of people point it out to him over the years and he saw no reason to disagree with them except the obvious one which was that he liked disagreeing with people, particularly people he disliked, which included, at the last count, everybody...

It wasn’t that he was naturally predisposed to be so surly, at least he hoped not. It was just the rain that got him down, always the rain...

Rob McKenna had two hundred and thirty-one differently types of rain entered in his little book, and he didn’t like any of them...

And as he drove on, the rain clouds dragged down the sky after him for, though he didn’t have know it, Rob Mckenna was a Rain God. All he knew what that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be be near him, to cherish him, and to water him.

I grew up in the cloudiest major city in the lower 48 states - Buffalo, New York. My parents still live there. I sorted the data set noted below, and after removing data errors, here are the cities in the lower 48 states sorted by cloudy days: Quillayute, Astoria, Kalispell, Beckley, Salem, and Buffalo. No offense, but the other five cities are not "major".

Perhaps that is why I moved to one of the sunniest cities in the lower 48 states, and have no regrets. Again, with data errors removed the places that are less cloudy than here are: Key West, Los Angeles, Flagstaff, Alamosa, Santa Maria, and Phoenix (and we have more sunny days than all but 3 of those).

In fact, where I currently live has more sunny days and less cloudy days in every month than Buffalo does.

And yet, when my parents came to visit for 10 days, it was cloudy every day, and rained most of them. Now that they have gone, we haven't even had a day you could fairly call partly cloudy.

What gives?

If you are curious, you can get cloudiness data here. Note that cloudiness data for my area is tracked at a place called Milford. I'm not sure why; Milford is only well known for its industrial size pig farm and desire to be a landing spot for future NASA space planes.

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