Just wondered. Never saw anyone pulled over during a down pour have you?
I live in Seattle,WA and have experienced and witnessed many rainy encounters with city and state officials. Kind of hard to avoid getting wet in this area, at least in the fall and winter months.
In SoCal, the Highway Patrol on rainy days is usually busy with untangling the innumberable accidents created by idiots who are unaware of how to drive in the rain. That may decrease your chances of getting pulled over, but in rainy weather in SoCal, it’s highly unlikely you will ever be traveling fast enough to perform any illegal act, such as speeding.
And if you are speeding, it’s your own damn fault when you get in an accident.
Reminds me of a Drew Carey bit. He said that once he became wealthy and could afford it he would deliberatly blow stop signs when it was pouring just to make the cop get out in the rain.
Office “You you know why I pulled you over?”
Drew “Do you know why ran that stop sign?”
In SoCal, I have seen quite a bit of cars pulled over with CHP cars stopped behind them. Now, whether or not they were pulled over for speeding, or they were already pulled over (stalled car, changing a flat, whatever) and the CHP stopped afterwards is another question.
Like, BobT has pointed out, when it’s raining, there are a lot of accidents (at least here), so most of the CHP are out tending to those accidents, which limits their ability to pull over any speeders, drunks, wreckless drivers, etc…
I used to date a woman who was an attorney for the Georgia State Patrol. She brought this topic up in conversation once and said there was no way the officers that she knew would be out writing tickets in the rain. I don’t remember what prompted the conversation, but I do remember her remark.