Somebody should look to see if there's a correlation between the weather on the days of campus visits and the number of prospective students who apply/ enroll at a given school.
We had pretty decent weather-- cool but seasonal, sunny in the morning, clouding over in the afternoon-- for today's Open House. Last year, we had dreary rain at least one of the Open House days. I'd like to think that something as random and trivial as the weather wouldn't really influence a high school student's college decision, but then, I've heard stupider things...
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It honestly did help make the decision between grad school in California vs. grad school in Maryland a little easier.
This is something I have observed for myself. The 3 schools I ended up going to for undergrad and grad school were all ones I visited on sunny days. It was sunny the day I interviewed for my current job, too (in January in Minnesota, no less). Of course, there were some schools I did not go to that I visited on sunny days.