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From: hopp@nbs-amrf.UUCP (Ted Hopp)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: A Strange Request
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Date: Sun, 20-Oct-85 00:01:16 EDT
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>            ... When I lived in the NYC area we had a saying: the weather is
> always nice on the high holidays.  Now I'm in the LA metro area.  The  same
> phenomenon  seems  to  hold  true, except it is harder to tell since the LA
> weather is more stable.  However, some  of  the  "long  distance  to  shul"
> walkers  are  of the firm opinion that the incidence of rain is less on the
> Shabbos than any other day.

> Paul Blumstein

At my shul (Mishkan Torah) in Greenbelt, MD (just outside DC), the story is
that it never rains on Yom Kippur.  (Of course, I remember one year ... :-)

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Ted Hopp	{seismo,umcp-cs}!nbs-amrf!hopp