Slog - Comments on Summer in the City

Comment by Abby

Abby — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:23:53 -0800

It's amazing, really.

And to think, I was in Las Vegas two days ago and bitching about the heat.

Comment by skye

skye — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:28:37 -0800

eat the oxtail if you're still at quinn's, it's a-maz-ing.

Comment by Deacon Seattle

Deacon Seattle — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:31:19 -0800

Dan, Summer in Seattle starts on July 5th.

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:32:26 -0800

April showers bring June showers.

It's not summer yet, and it's ALWAYS like this in June. We get some fantastic early spring weather, then June is heavy rain and weird humidity, and then on July 5th summer begins.

Comment by Jerod

Jerod — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:44:20 -0800

I like it.

Comment by Donolectic

Donolectic — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:44:50 -0800

I hate it. Bitter, bitter h8.

GIVE ME THE DAMN FIREY ORB IN THE SKY!

Comment by Dan Savage

Dan Savage — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:49:30 -0800

I'm dying for some light, some sunlight. I was in Vermont this weekend and it was humid and warm and the sun came out and I was in a college town and there were half-naked frat boys everywhere and I'm ready to move.

Which should delight the haters, but please note: I've been ready to move for 15 years now. If I may paraphrase a great lady: The kid won't leave without me. I won't leave the boyfriend. And the boyfriend will never leave.

Comment by brickey

brickey — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:51:17 -0800

Summer begins with the Blue Angels! whoops.

Comment by A Non Imus

A Non Imus — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:52:13 -0800

You have to be fucked in the head to like this place.

Comment by MexMan

MexMan — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:57:22 -0800

Why do we live here? Oh yeah - cuz it's soooo beautiful on a warm & sunny day. A day or two of sunshine and I forget about days like today.

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:00:51 -0800

Dan, go back to Vermont in February and tell us how you like it.

BTW, it's currently 58 degrees and raining in Burlington.

Comment by Sargon Bighorn

Sargon Bighorn — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:03:38 -0800

The rain makes my veggie garden burst into leaf. My bamboo shoots are huge and the S.E. Asians come by to get a few shoots for eating. Yeah by the end of May with the gray and cold I'm ready to jump off some bridge, but then the sun comes out for a day or two and I'm okay again. And all this moisture is so good for the complexion.

Comment by Giffy

Giffy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:04:36 -0800

This is why I love Seattle.

Comment by Whack

Whack — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:05:57 -0800

This is stupid.

Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale

Lloyd Clydesdale — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:09:49 -0800

We'll see another blast of greenery and flowers in short order.

What I like about this kind of rain is that that whiff of ocean -- if you're in the zone -- ends up getting tucked up in there and it smells supreme.

Comment by mackro mackro

mackro mackro — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:14:13 -0800

Rain isn't uncommon anywhere in the summer in North America.

At least we're not fighting with golf-ball sized hail and funnel clouds like the poor folks in D.C.

Comment by mackro mackro

mackro mackro — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:16:41 -0800

And yeah, Seattle's colloquial summer isn't until July 5th (although we've had dry July 4ths for quita a run so far.)

Summer doesn't begin *anywhere* for the northern hemisphere until June 21st/22nd, though.

Comment by Big Sven

Big Sven — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:17:39 -0800

After five years here, I honestly fucking love this weather. Nothing better than home through Sea-Tac to cool, wet air. My dry skin clears up and my allergies get better.

Nice Queen Mum quote, D.

Comment by Lil Puffy

Lil Puffy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:22:08 -0800

I luv it! Makes me want to smoke a giant joint.

Comment by Cale

Cale — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:22:28 -0800

This is the kind of rain I love brother!

Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball

Jubilation T. Cornball — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:25:07 -0800

Dan I loved the QM, and your quote was so apt :-)

My Armani raincoat proved it was all style and all function tonight kids, and thank Christ for that.

Comment by Greg Barnes

Greg Barnes — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:29:29 -0800

1 inch so far today in my backyard rain gauge. Which means I don't have to water the berries this week.

Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball

Jubilation T. Cornball — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:31:15 -0800

@22 -- I hope "berries" is safe-speak for some fine-ass skunk that'll be hitting the streets later this summer.

Comment by COMTE

COMTE — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:41:02 -0800

I just wiped out on my scooter for the first time on my way home from work this evening, so I'm a teensy bit less enthused by today's weather than a PNW native would normally be. But yeah, my garden and the new patch of grass - of the lawn variety - is really loving it, so that's some consolation.

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:02:39 -0800

Rain isn't uncommon anywhere in the summer in North America.

Yes it is. Here. It rains less in the summer in Seattle than any major city in the US or Canada. But it's not summer yet.

Comment by Risa

Risa — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:12:04 -0800

I miss it!

Comment by Bob

Bob — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:51:19 -0800

Rainy introverted claustrophobic crap weather is why all the really icky serial killers come from Western Washington. The red and the gray.

Comment by kerri harrop

kerri harrop — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:53:33 -0800

Fuck this bullshit weather. Talk about a depression session. It's like bloody November outside.

Comment by AT

AT — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:40:07 -0800

Summer in the City

means cleavage, cleavage, cleavage!

Comment by Big Sven

Big Sven — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:47:20 -0800

COMTE@24-

Sorry to hear that. You OK?

Just remember, there are two kinds of riders: people who have dropped their bikes, and people who are going to drop their bikes again.

Comment by Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:48 -0800

@16, @25 - San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego

Comment by Mr. X

Mr. X — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:37:14 -0800

@31,

Cryptic, but I think you're trying to say it doesn't rain in those places in June/Jul/Aug. In the case of LA and SD, largely true, in the case of SF, it may not often pour rain like today, but you do get a lot of damp gloomy days on their side of the Bay during Spring and Summer.

And hell, even scorching Phoenix gets Spring rain that makes today's standing water flood on SR 99 just north of the Battery Street Tunnel look like a kiddie pool....

Comment by Hot Stuff

Hot Stuff — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:58:41 -0800

I lived in Memphis, TN for 13 years. It will be 90+ degrees (with oppressive humidity) every day from now until the end of Sept. You go from your air conditioned home, into your air conditioned car, to your air conditioned work.

I'll take a June fifties and rainy day in Seattle anytime.

Comment by Bellevue Ave

Bellevue Ave — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:50:37 -0800

The marine layer in S.F. is half the reason to live there.

Comment by Greg

Greg — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:06:43 -0800

This is my kind of weather. I'll take cloudy, drizzly, and mid-50s over sunny, humid, and mid-90s any time. So will my wife, who gets a rash from that kind of heat.

Comment by max solomon

max solomon — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:19:07 -0800

this year has been unusually cold late into spring - you may notice that the "typical" rhodedendron species are just now in full flower - about 2 weeks late.

but you could be in the stifling, humid, hot, flat, conservative, cultureless, boring south or midwest, so STFU & let it go.

Comment by Vince

Vince — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:33:54 -0800

I won't say what I think because you censor comments on SLOG.

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:39:13 -0800

46 degrees this morning.

You call this summer?

I'll wait until the Fremont Solstice Parade - that's when Summer starts.

Comment by Rotten666

Rotten666 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:12:48 -0800

oh man the blue angels! I can't wait for that fiasco on the slog.

Comment by COMTE

COMTE — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:38:29 -0800

BigSven @30:

Thanks for the concern.

Yeah, okay, as is the bike, which suffered just a bit of scraped plastic. I managed to execute a nice six-point landing (both forearms, knees and toes - actually dented one of my steel-toed boots!). I've got a strawberry the size of a dollar pankcake on my left knee, with slightly smaller abrasions on both my elbows & forearms.

Fortunately, one of the advantages of dumping a scooter as opposed to a motorcycle is that generally you fall clear of the bike, so you don't have the additional injuries caused by having it fall on top of you.

The worst part was choosing between 1,000 Mg of Ibuprofen or two or three shots of whisky for pain maintenance. In the end I chose the Ibu.

Comment by Geni

Geni — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:47:26 -0800

Do people move to Phoenix and spend all their time complaining that it's hot? Do they move to Minneapolis and complain that it snows a lot in winter? (I suppose both of those are true - people are morons.) So why would anyone living in Seattle be surprised that the prevailing weather at any time of year can be cool and gray?

I have to go to Orlando next week, and I'm dreading it. Talk about a climate I never, ever want to live in - it's been mid-90s with 70% humidity and severe thunderstorms. Joy. I'll melt.

Comment by ABM1964

ABM1964 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:06:02 -0800

No wonder I can't shake my cold!

Comment by Les

Les — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:43:34 -0800

And yet I had a lovely walk on the beach with my dog today, complete with sun breaks and a sweet smelling breeze. One of the things I love about Seattle are the tiny pockets of weather that can be different from one neighborhood to the next; almost microclimates. Yesterday it was the same thing. I took the dog down for a warm, partly sunny walk on the beach, then got in my car around 6 to head to the U District and see William Gibson read from Spook Country at U Bookstore. I could not believe how black and ominous the sky was driving I-5 into downtown.

After the reading, it was monsoon city. We were dripping wet by the time we got back to the car. Driving home, the further we got from downtown, the lighter the sky on the western horizon.

Hey Dan, I enjoyed seeing your guest spots on Bill Maher's show and wish he wasn't off the air till August because so much is happening right now and we won't get to hear his sardonic slant on it all!