Better than radar

Leave it to the spoilsports at Harvard Medical School to ruin a perfectly good bit of folklore. Every time the barometer falls and it gets ready to rain, our knees flare up. We know this to be true. We feel it in our bones. But a new study from the Cambridge eggheads looked at Medicare records of more than 11 million primary care visits, matched those up with rainfall totals, and found absolutely no relationship between impending wet days and back or joint pain. Harrumph. We eagerly await the researchers’ next big-data analysis debunking any and all connection between professional weather forecasts and the actual weather we get.