You have to flip a lot of pages on the calendar to find the last time it didn’t rain on a Saturday

A house on Montgomery Street in Concord is reflected in a puddle from the overnight rain on Wednesday, June 18, 2025. This Saturday might be the first weekend day that there hasn’t been rain for the last 12 Saturdays.

A house on Montgomery Street in Concord is reflected in a puddle from the overnight rain on Wednesday, June 18, 2025. This Saturday might be the first weekend day that there hasn’t been rain for the last 12 Saturdays. GEOFF FORESTER—Monitor staff

By DAVID BROOKS

Monitor staff

Published: 06-18-2025 2:04 PM

Modified: 06-18-2025 2:21 PM


Something weird is going to happen Saturday: It won’t rain.

Not raining on Saturdays didn’t used to be weird, but then The Spring of 2025 arrived with orders to dampen our weekends. Dampen them, it did.

According to the National Weather Service, the gauge at Concord airport has seen at least a trace and as much as an inch of rain during each of the last two Saturdays in March, all four Saturdays in April, all four Saturdays in May and the first two Saturdays in June. 

That’s 12 in a row. Add Sundays to the mix, and we haven’t had a precipitation-free weekend since late February; 15 consecutive weekends have seen rain.

If the Red Sox had a streak like that, we’d be high-fiving in the street. Instead, we’re shaking our fists at the clouds.

Meteorologists say this streak is due to high pressure here and low pressure there, or something like that, but they don’t explain why it’s been sunny and pleasant whenever we have to go to the office, but rainy when we want to go hiking.

Obviously, we have offended the weather deities for one reason or another. Let’s hope they don’t hold a grudge.

David Brooks can be reached at dbrooks@cmonitor.com

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