The Buffalo Weathercast

Aaron reports that a rare astronomical event will take place on June 8: a Venus will make a transit of the Sun. A transit, for those who weren't paying attention in class, is when a planetary object moves across the face of the Sun, as seen from Earth. In fact, total lunar eclipses are transits that merely happen to be eclipses by virtue of the Sun and Moon having the same apparent size when viewed from the surface of the earth (this is pure coincidence). Due to differences in the Earth's and Venus's planes of orbit, Venusian transits are very rare.

This guarantees, of course, that June 8 will be a cloudy day in Western New York.