New residents of Seattle East grow tired of the rain
By adamg - Fri, 08/08/2008 - 7:03am.
You know it's bad when firetrucks go screaming past you to rescue drivers whose cars got stuck in some floodwaters and the regional cable news network feels compelled to warn us not to drive into flash floods.
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No kidding, right?
It's like living in Miami. How many days this year have we had a 15-minute monsoon, only to have dry pavement an hour later?
It doesn't help that I have a spark plug/wiring problem with my car, which means that I need to floor it in park a few times when I start it on damp days so that the accelerator feeds the engine properly. Got the "check engine" light briefly last night because I pumped so much fuel while in park.
This is NOT Seattle Weather
Boston has been having Georgia or Carolina or Florida weather. Not Seattle.
Summer in the Northwest is dry, dry, dry. July 5 to July 20, we saw but a very few drops of rain when travelling between Vancouver and Seattle, around the border area, and clearing overcast while waiting for the train to Portland. That was it for a two week trip - a little unusually dry in Portland, but not atypical.
Northwest winters are damp, but you don't often get pouring rains - just mist, all the time. Not cold much, but brutal when you consider the 8 hours of daylight for a couple of months each year.
Seconded
SwirlyGrrl is absolutely right about Seattle not getting heavy downpours like these, but I do have a minor quibble:
Seattle in the winter is darkly overcast much of the time, and not just with mist. Also drizzle, sprinkles, and the occasional light rain.
Seattleites can recognize at least 27 different kinds of rain.
True
I spent my teen years in Portland and it is a bit less marine there ... drizzle yes, light rain maybe, downpours only in early spring.
My late mother taught my kids the "Oregon dash". They shout it out when they choose not to use an umbrella for a short traverse between buildings, car and building, etc. and run for it!
Its been feeling alot like
Its been feeling alot like DC around here. Down there it seems to rain everyday at 5pm in the summer then it heats right back up.
This is the first day in almost 2 months that I have opened all the windows in the office and I dont have a single fan or ac running (or dehumidifier for when its not hot but really damp and the dampness invades the rooms lol.)
I always liked living in Boston because out summers were not as bad as some of the more southern states, if this keeps up I will have to move to where my Boston weather went, maybe Quebec?
Maybe northern Quebec
Because when we were in Montreal a couple weeks ago, the weather was pretty much the same as here: Muggy, rain every day. There was even a waterspout on the St. Lawrence one day.
... and they say global
... and they say global climate change doesnt exist.
I think we just got a humidity wave, my ice tea from the canteen downstairs is sweating like it just did an hour of spin class.
So Northern Quebec eh? Maybe I will go to Alaska instead, Ive heard they have been getting less snow as of late and as temps rise maybe they will become warmer for longer parts of the year. Plus Im a coastal guy, for some reason I have to live within an hours drive (MAX) to the ocean or I feel out of place.
Thought I'd left it behind in NYC
And here I thought last summer was bad ... but somehow I knew when this one started, oh, several aeons ago, that it would at least match last year's.
Bleh! I'm one of those people who cannot deal with humidity. I can't go out without coming home drenched - from the skin out. Family trait. I thought I'd left most of that behind when I left NYC, but nooooo ...
HEY my family too! lol
HEY my family too! lol Fat/thin/tall/short everyone agrees that the humidity is aweful. Were the ones who go to Vegas in 115 degree weather without batting an eye but give us 68 and muggy and the sky is falling lol.
Scooter woes
Rode my scooter last night home from the Lebowski party at Kings. 1 am, raining steadily. I couldn't put my visor down because my face was already wet from getting to my ride. Every time I did, my glasses and my visor would fog over completely. So, now I'm doing 25-35 mph down Comm Ave with rain whipping at my face. Every time I stopped the water beading up on the seat behind me would roll forward and soak my ass with a water wedgie. When I got home, I found that the rain had soaked through three layers of clothes (jacket, shirt, and t-shirt) and my pants looked like they had been stitched together down the seams from two pairs, a wet pair and a dry pair. 9 hours later when I woke up this morning, my clothes were still drenched even though I left them out on the tub to drip dry. My jacket was damp on the bottom where it is the thickest and my shoes were still a darker shade than when I bought them because they were so wet.
What happened to my normal August weather?