Consider the following two statements:
- It is raining outside right now.
- It is very sunny outside right now.
One might assume the two were mutually exclusive. Those of us from New England, however, know better. Indeed, it’s a bright, sunny day here, but I’m watching rain fall on the roof outside my window.
It happens other places as well. One memorable day I was riding a bicycle along a road out west. There was one cloud in the sky (literally) and it was raining over the road. We rode through the rain in seconds. People a few minutes ahead of us or a few minutes behind us never say the rain at all.