In honor of this soggy Sunday, I was going to write about the origin of “raining cats and dogs” but it turns out the origin of a the phrase is a little obscure and possibly grisly — check it out.

The storms upset all of our plans for the weekend and there’s nothing like the smell of a dog who has been drenched in a downpour but I think all of us who live in this desert are secretly delighted by the rain