Air pollution can affect weekend weather

Darkfrog submitted, created time 3 months 1 week (www.nature.com)

The only thing that separates a Thursday from a Sunday is human convention ...and now the weather. According to this article, human behaviors such as driving cars can affect the weather. We already knew that, right? Well the cool part is that behaviors that depend on the type of day--say, the weekday rush hour--can cause the weather to differ depending on whether it's a working day or a weekend by affecting the number of condensation nuclei in the air.

The effects differ by region and season. Spain has been getting sunnier winter weekends and colder and wetter summer weekends. In Iceland it's a different story.

So our daily drudge really does make our Saturday brighter.

Keywords: weather climate climate change air pollution pollution rain precipitation