When Mary from Hanover, New Hampshire, was vacationing in Alaska, she picked up a term from the locals: sucker hole. It refers to a patch of sun peeking through the clouds, which leads tourists to assume that the weather is going to clear up. The locals, however, know that a sucker hole will be there only briefly before the skies are overcast again. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Sucker Hole”
Mary LaMarca from Hanover, New Hampshire, picked up some slang when she went on a cruise to Alaska.
And she was talking with some of the locals there.
She learned the term sucker hole.
She says, since this part of Alaska’s weather is so similar to the northwest coast weather of Washington and Oregon,
It’s often gray and cloudy and rains on and off during the day.
Sometimes a patch of sky and sun will appear in the cloudy sky.
The locals call this a sucker hole because so many tourists think the weather is going to clear and become sunny.
But it never does.
Oh, there’s a little patch of blue.
Obviously, it’s going to go in the direction I want it to go.
It will enlarge and there will be sunshine.
I can wear my shorts.
Yeah, but apparently this is pretty widely used.
That’s awesome.
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