I dislike calling this "magical thinking", just because the plausible causal relationship takes a little time to discover, it's not implausible at the outset.

I dislike calling this "magical thinking", just because the plausible causal relationship takes a little time to discover, it's not implausible at the outset. In fact, the causal relationship between rain & wifi is taken as a given by the author: > If anything, rain makes wireless signal quality worse It's not too surprising to discover a causal relationship between two things we already know are causally related.