Finally, an interesting question. The atmosphere isn’t massless (by anyone’s imagination) and neither is all the water (and everything else) in it. So there has to be some effect.

In fact it has been discussed in Scientific American.

What is in the vending machines at the Weather Channel cafeteria, anyway? It’s gotta be some strong stuff. “Catastrophe Juice” “Doom Cocktail” “Better Off Dead Soda” “URScrewdrivers” “Fugheddabouit”

Washington DC in particular doesn’t cope with reality very well. Of course, anyone who lives in the rest of America already knows that.

Doesn’t the moon have something to do with the menstrual cycle? You might claim that doesn’t have anything to do with murderous rages, but it certainly has something to do with births.