For quite a few years I have had relatives living in the Seattle area and other points Pacific and Northwest. Although I had heard that this part of the world is wet – very wet – every time I visited the weather was beautiful, often with sunny skis and temperatures in the 70s and 80s. (There was one very wet drive down the west side of the Olympics, but that is a different world.)
When I would remark on this they would often reply with something along the lines of, “Well, yes, but you should have been here yesterday when it rained 23 inches.”
I finally decided that the whole thing was a scam to convince Californians to stay home. They know how wimpy we can be about rain, so it was the perfect line. “Yeah, Seattle is really a cool place. Oh, by the way, it rains every day… about 6 inches. You’d hate it.”
Yeah, right.
Well, maybe so. I got here yesterday and it was supposed to be “partly cloudy.” However, the partly cloudy began to precipitate noticably by afternoon. This morning I woke up to actual rain which has continued all day. And into the night. And the forecast is for more of the same tomorrow.
January 5, 2006
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For quite a few years I have had relatives living in the Seattle area and other points Pacific and Northwest. Although I had heard that this part of the world is wet – very wet – every time I visited the weather was beautiful, often with sunny skis and temperatures in the 70s and 80s. (There was one very wet drive down the west side of the Olympics, but that is a different world.)
When I would remark on this they would often reply with something along the lines of, “Well, yes, but you should have been here yesterday when it rained 23 inches.”
I finally decided that the whole thing was a scam to convince Californians to stay home. They know how wimpy we can be about rain, so it was the perfect line. “Yeah, Seattle is really a cool place. Oh, by the way, it rains every day… about 6 inches. You’d hate it.”
Yeah, right.
Well, maybe so. I got here yesterday and it was supposed to be “partly cloudy.” However, the partly cloudy began to precipitate noticably by afternoon. This morning I woke up to actual rain which has continued all day. And into the night. And the forecast is for more of the same tomorrow.
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January 5, 2006 Posted by gdanmitchell | Commentary | 2 Comments