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more about #weather more comments → If_I_Had_a_Poodle: They are stealing our snow. We have a snow gap with the Chinese. #china more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: We should get them together with the gnomes. #china more » Karlifornia: The hedge maze at the Overlook claims 1,000 more victims #china more » lobstr: Yet rising inversely proportional are the acts of criminal exploitation committed by Canal Street vendors and their flimsy $5 umbrellas. more » DoctorNine: I think the article is misquoted. I have it on good authority that this statistic is only true in Spain. more » miss_msry: No picnics in the rain, therefore no extended families barbecuing in the Park getting Stolyied up and taking offense at years old imagined slights. more » shostakobitch: instances of getting high and playing stratego are at an all time high in fog or sleet. more » GretchenWieners (is praying she passes the bar): Well, Ann Arbor hasn't had a summer either, and last night "several" apartments in my building were broken into. But I'm cool with it, cause the break... more » Perhaps Not: Rain also means that the heat breaks, guys. Comfortable weather = fewer gunshot wounds. more » Colonel Mustard: It's hard to stab somebody and keep your umbrella straight at the same time. more » HiredGoons: Orange you glad is isn't raining? Tip your waitress folks. more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: climate change more » Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: Same thing happening here in New Zealand, only people try to explain that away by rationalising that it's the middle of Winter and that it's expected,... more » SharonTaint: the only depressing thing about this is chitchatting about the weather. more » procrastinator, esq.: L.A.'s been cold (highs in the low 60's) and socked-in cloudy for the last month, too, though it finally broke (a little) this week. What the hell? ... more » -
#picoftheday
Frosted Fakes, They're Grrrreat
[Panda sculptures at the Beijing zoo are covered in snow after Chinese scientists claimed to artificially induce the second snowstorm in the country's capital this year. Image via Getty] -
#crime
The Rain Explains Why Fewer People Are Slain
The New York Times conducts its own analysis and concludes that, in New York City at least, more rainy days means fewer homicides. However, given the ongoing depressing Year Without a Summer around these parts, there's no discussion of suicides. More » -
#picoftheday
One Day of Not Rain
[A lifeguard on one of New York City's beaches, taken earlier this month, when it was remarkably not raining. Via Flickr user H E T's I Hate/Love NYC 09 gallery] -
#junegloom
The Year (Still) Without a Summer
Last week you scoffed with your sarcastic "boo hoos" and reminded us it's still technically spring when we said 2009 is shaping up to be The Year Without a Summer. Are those of you on the East Coast convinced yet? More » -
#weather
The Year Without a Summer
No, it's not you. The weather in New York City has been a foggy, soggy, cloudy, sunless slog through what is supposed to be a beautiful, joyous June. Blame it on fucking El Niño. More » -
#parksprocreation
Nice Weather Means It's Naked Time
What a gorgeous New York weekend that was! 80's and sunny. Were you one of the many, many people that filled both Central and Bryant Parks with your naked selves? Photographic evidence after the jump. More » -
#picoftheday
Wintertime, and the Livin's Easy
[Some folks playing basketball in New York's unseasonably warm weather yesterday; image via Getty] -
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#weather
AP: British Can't Handle a Little Snow
Hitler bombed London for two months straight and the Brits stiff-upper-lipped themselves back to work, but a foot of snow has destroyed the morale of those once-proud people. More » -
#imagefile
La Niña Gives Us a Smooch
A satellite image from the National Weather Service shows a storm system—maybe caused by our ladyfriend La Niña?—that appears to be giving us here in the Northeast a big, lipsticky kiss. [via Gothamist] -
#weather
After warm Sundance, hail falls in Atwater Village. [Atwater Newbie]
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#picoftheday
Weathering The Storm
[People in Chester, PA attend a cold, wet rally today for presidential hopeful Barack Obama, who gave his speech in the pouring rain, wearing jeans and sneakers; image via EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images]
