Sir

Randall Cerveny and Robert Balling's report on the raininess of weekends shows that there is nothing new under the Sun — at least not on this topic (Nature 394, 561–563; 1998). The same not-so-sunny conclusion was reported by David M. Schultz of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma, in the Annals of Improbable Research (March/April 1998).

Schultz used daily weather observation records archived by the National Climatic Data Center for Atmospheric Research. A stickler for completeness, Schultz examined 40 years' worth of data, thus making his project strictly biblical in scope.

The Schultz report will be archived on our website (http://www.improbable.com) when last weekend's flooding subsides enough for us to re-enter our building.