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Per Midwest culture, rain is the weather that keeps the most people indoors.
I went to college in Ohio. I much preferred 30° and precipitating to 35° and precipitating, especially as a pedestrian walking to classes. Snow you can brush off before you go in, a cold rain just soaks in.
Cold and dry is uncomfortable. Cold and wet is dead.
The number of whole city gridlocks that occur when there's a light misting says otherwise
Mist is mist. Rain is rain.
I know. But It's not enough to cause the panic it does gridlocking the city
My point, which you missed, was that if people were staying in, there wouldn't be enough cars on the road to gridlock the city due to idiots panicking over some slightly moist pavement.