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Published Friday, May 13, 2005 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

RAIN, RAIN, GO AWAY: It hasn't rained for 40 days and 40 nights, but four straight weekends of rain, wind and cold has everyone in the Hub praying to Ra, the sun god.
Imagine how our TV meteorologists feel, having to deliver the bad news yet again.
"We have mass depression settling in among the population,'' said Harvey Leonard of WCVB-TV (Ch. 5), half joking. "It's a little tough. As soon as I get my words out, the anchors are just like the public. They don't want to hear it.''
Nevertheless, Eastern Massachusetts should expect dark skies with possible showers tomorrow and Sunday - though nothing like last weekend's nor'easter.

Read the quotes I got from Boston's other TV weathercasters, in today's Boston Herald: Forecast is all wet: Bearers of bad news feel the heat