Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for August 27, 2023

Described by the scientific community in the novel So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish as a “Quasi Supernormal Incremental Precipitation Inducer,” Rob McKenna is an ordinary lorry driver who can never get away from rain and he has a log-book showing that it has rained on him every day, anywhere that he has ever been, to prove it. Arthur suggests that he could show the diary to someone, which Rob does, making the media deem him a ‘Rain God’ (something which he actually is) for the clouds want “to be near him, to love him, to cherish him and to water him.”

Wikipedia entry of THGTTG characters

I’ve arrived at work feeling like Sal looks, when I lived in a tenement studio, 3rd floor walkup, and all of my windows faced the same direction. That was, they all opened into an enclosed courtyard. No breeze. No air circulation whatsoever. Had to walk 1+ mile to and from work every day, rain or shine, and when you get to this time of year, we regularly hit 90F, sometimes 100, with dew points of 70+. In that apartment, you would lie awake in bed at night not moving, yet sweating. When you woke up, you were sweating. Never a dry moment. Except at work with the A/C. So Sal may be feeling a tad uncomfortable just now. Best get that man an iced coffee.

Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.

Google lies sometimes.

That’s not the result of rain, it’s just a very humid day.

Walk through the sprinklers again Sal.

Nope. Weather channel is wrong again, as usual.

NWS: No Worthwhile Science.

Isn’t that true everywhere in the Northern Hemisphere and the tropics? (Except for the polar region)

This must be an old ’toon. Weather forecasting is very good these days about predicting precipitation within the next hour or so. I plan my catwalking around those forecasts.

Sal looks like he wants to fight someone

Okay, it could be wrong, but this being Summer 2023, it could be very right.

Is that rainwater, or is that heavy sweat?

When I need to know the weather, I look out the window and check the outside thermometer. Jay should have checked the weather rock.

… or maybe kinda humid?