from The Boston Globe

Despite inches of rain and all those overcast afternoons, gloomy mornings, and cloudy lunch breaks, this June will not set a record for a shortage of sunshine.

Even if not another ray of sunlight reaches the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory and Science Center in Milton before the end of the month, it will not matter. It is now mathematically impossible to break the all-time record set in 1903, when just 25 percent of the sun’s rays penetrated the clouds. (Read the full story here.)