A segula for rain

Srugim is reporting on a segula for rain. Unfortunately, this is not a segula anybody can just do, but it has to happen on its own. Which makes it kind of pointless.

The weather forecasts are all calling for rain in much of the country tomorrow, and possibly some on shabbos as well.

Srugim found in the sefer Taamei Haminhagim, written 100 years ago, that when we lein the Torah 3 days in a row, it is a good omen for rain to come. The reason is because when the Jews left Egypt and went to Mara in the desert, it says they went 3 days without water. It is brought that because of that the chachamim decreed we should never go three days without reading the Torah (Torah is compared to water in Jewish literature), thus we read Shabbos, Monday and Thursday. And if it should ever happen that we would read the Torah three days in a row, rain would come.

Because we read the Torah today (Thursday), will be reading it Friday because of Rosh Chodesh, and then again on Shabbos, the omen should work. And we see the weather forecasters are predicting rain.

I would think though that the rain would come after the three days not during..and I wonder if during a drought if a community would decree to read the Torah 3 days in a row if that would trigger the omen and bring the rain...