When the prefrosh weather machine breaks down

The prefrosh are coming this weekend, and in recent years, the little kiddies have enjoyed absolutely gorgeous weather. For those of you who don't know, the weather was so consistently amazing on these preview weekends that people started suspecting Shirley Tilghman kept a weather machine for the occasion. I mean, we're talking brilliant mid-70s sunny kind of stuff.But have you checked the weather report for this weekend? Awful, to say the least:But, maybe Shirley knows what she's doing -- a new Penn study shows that cloudy weather might actually attract prefrosh. Weird?The researchers serve up a dish of counterintuitive with a side of obvious:

Visiting a college on a cloudy day could increase the likelihood that you’ll apply and enroll at that particular school, according to a study by Wharton professor Uri Simonsohn.Simonsohn was surprised with his findings. He was “expecting the opposite” result, since data show that people are happier during sunnier weather.

And the name of the study? "Weather to Go to College." So, prefreez, go to Penn for the charm and wit.