In NY suburbia, we have not seen the sun, even for a minute, since Thursday last week (8 days). We are promised Sun tomorrow afternoon but with all the stuff in the Atlantic I'm not counting on this. Today, NY probably breaks its rainfall record for the whole month of October...and it will have done this in 8 straight days. I had to do a little bailing of the basement until we got the crap out of the gutter (man, it is a long way down from that ladder)..but pretty dry down there since..Some of this moisture has been coming up a continuous plume from the Carribean most of this time.

I am reminded of the science fiction story (Bradbury?) of the little Girl from early who lived on Venus where the sun only comes out every 7 years...for an hour...I won't ruin that for you....good story..

OK...I'm only allowed to be 95% off topic...earthquakes may cause rain. If the earthquake, say, in Pakistan stirred up enough fine dust into the atmosphere via landslides, and the moisture is available, the dust serves as condensation nuclei and it can trigger rain. I've seen it happen in a fire in the back-country north of Santa Barbara...the big plume of smoke turned into a thunderstorm over the fire...some rain, lightning....this can happen in volcanic eruptions also...
Chris