Data anomaly detected: Trump approval rating appears to match the national temperature in Fahrenheit on 47% of days since July.
A technical analyst crunching numbers for a major news outlet just flagged a bizarre pattern in polling data: the president's approval rating has been numerically identical to that day's average temperature in Washington, D.C., on nearly half of all measured days since the start of July. The odds of this happening randomly, according to statisticians, are around 1 in 8 million. The glitch—or glitch in the matrix—has left data scientists baffled, as no clear weather-related polling effect can explain it. The White House has issued a cryptic statement calling the finding 'interesting weather patterns.' Follow the data here.