For those who celebrate the Easter holiday, we’re heading into Easter weekend, a weekend that comes with several weather proverbs and folklore. One in particular is centered around this Friday — Good Friday! 

The proverb regarding this religious holiday’s weather maintains that it always rains or storms on Good Friday between the hours of noon and 3pm. This comes from the Christian belief that Christ’s crucifixion occurred on Good Friday between these times and that during this time, the skies turned dark and stormy. The Bible verse from Matthews 27:45 states “it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.”

So how often does this proverb actually checkout? Well climatologically speaking, spring generally tends to be a relatively wet season across western North Carolina, with March being, on average, the wettest month in Charlotte out of the year. From that perspective, the chance of getting rain on Good Friday is already decent just do to the nature of the spring season and its progression of storm systems. 

So does it actually always rain on Good Friday as the saying goes? Well, maybe not here. But there is bound to be one place in the world where they are receiving rain at some point between noon and 3 p.m. on that particular day.