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We got rid of that shit here in Minneapolis yesterday. We've had two lovely warm, sunny days. Naneenaneebooboo.
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You would rather be sweltering with the rest of the country? Shoulda gone to the Solstice parade. Lots of fun, and a swell performance by the Rainbow City Band. Would have been miserable in hot weather, crammed armpit to asshole with all those spectators.
And next weekend, the Rainbow City Band will be playng and marching in the Pride Parade. They are fabulous!
And next weekend, the Rainbow City Band will be playng and marching in the Pride Parade. They are fabulous!
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Remember the "Modern Family" where they all flew to Hawaii on Continental and stayed at the prominently featured Four Seasons, so the producers didn't have to pay a dime for the costs of the show?
Well, isn't there a "GLBTQ blogger parents of tweens" family convention in Maui right about now? And if not, couldn't you get one going right quick, sponsored by advertisers x, y and z? Since you'll write about going to it, it's all tax-deductible, no? Pays for itself?
Just an idea.
Well, isn't there a "GLBTQ blogger parents of tweens" family convention in Maui right about now? And if not, couldn't you get one going right quick, sponsored by advertisers x, y and z? Since you'll write about going to it, it's all tax-deductible, no? Pays for itself?
Just an idea.
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Tornadoes, 100% humidity, flash floods. Some days 70+ degrees in a row would be nice. My garden sends out a plea for sun also.
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If Seattle weather was a woman it'd be the kind that's amazing in bed, but threatens to kill herself (and your dog) if you ever leave her. You put up with the crazy because when it's good...it's mindblowingly awesome. And there are JUST enough amazing lays/days to make all the 911 calls worth it.
The only way I get through the spring/early summer is to focus on the good days (last weekend, so pretty) through the weeks of throat-slitting-worthy gray.
But at least I never take nice weather for granted anymore!
(Note: Like Dan, I'm a midwest/Chicago transplant, and therefore legally forbidden from disparaging Seattle weather. I've already told myself to go back to where I came from, just to save you the effort.)
The only way I get through the spring/early summer is to focus on the good days (last weekend, so pretty) through the weeks of throat-slitting-worthy gray.
But at least I never take nice weather for granted anymore!
(Note: Like Dan, I'm a midwest/Chicago transplant, and therefore legally forbidden from disparaging Seattle weather. I've already told myself to go back to where I came from, just to save you the effort.)
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The natives love it though.
Eventually everyone who moved here after 1992 and got snookered by a brief interlude of global warming will either die from diabetes or be lured back south by cheap rent and even cheaper houses in So. Cal.
I mean, check out I-5 at 9pm on a Friday, yesterday.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47446064@N0…
Ten years ago you couldn't squeeze a scooter through the traffick from Everett to Tacoma. Now? Seattle the Ghost Town!
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Same here in Bragg Creek, does nothing but rain for the entire month of June, and when it isn't raining, it snows. It sucks in paradise sometimes, but look on the bright side: You could live in Alabama where the sun shines, but they don't sell sex toys.
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this year is unusually gloomy. even cliff mass admits it. take comfort in knowing its been worse in portland.
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I look at that picture and all I see is a fine-looking span of #2 triplex. There still homes and businesses in this town that have to live with open 3 wire from the '50's. What are you complaining about, Dan?
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I find the best way to feel better is to go do shit where you are stuck outside no matter what. So far this year I have been golfing, horse showing, and campingX2weekends in absolute shit downpour freezing cold crap, but ya know, when I go back to the daily grind at the office, I am sooooooo happy to be inside and warm :)
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Good old SeattLOL. Glad to be a Chicagoan; the weather's more varied, if highly aggravating at times.
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I haven't had to wear sun screen yet. One or two days of sun and then a week or so of clouds. This weather is awesome.
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@14 You lie. For the past 3 years, its been nice starting in May, and then gorgeous.
I'm also going crazy. This shit makes me understand suicidal tendencies a bit more.
I'm also going crazy. This shit makes me understand suicidal tendencies a bit more.
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A June like this is the hardest for me to get through. January and February I can live with. You expect it to be shitty. But by June I start to really expect and want a few nice days. And I start getting cranky if I don't get some decent weather by now. Last month was one of the most dreary Mays I can remember recently.
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It sucks cuz i can't wash my new car! And before you bitch that im a menace to cyclers, i don't live in seattle proper and always take the ferry into town, plus it's a Prius.
The weather doesn't make me suicidal as much as it does homicidal. And it really dampens the ol' sex drive i must say.
The only people who love it are people who have only lived here less than 3 years. I myself am ready to head back to San Jose after 8 years of this.
The weather doesn't make me suicidal as much as it does homicidal. And it really dampens the ol' sex drive i must say.
The only people who love it are people who have only lived here less than 3 years. I myself am ready to head back to San Jose after 8 years of this.
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It sucks cuz i can't wash my new car! And before you bitch that im a menace to cyclers, i don't live in seattle proper and always take the ferry into town, plus it's a Prius.
The weather doesn't make me suicidal as much as it does homicidal, i swear i have the shortest temper right now. And it really dampens the ol' sex drive i must say.
The only people who love it are people who have only lived here less than 3 years. I myself am ready to head back to San Jose after 8 years of this.
The weather doesn't make me suicidal as much as it does homicidal, i swear i have the shortest temper right now. And it really dampens the ol' sex drive i must say.
The only people who love it are people who have only lived here less than 3 years. I myself am ready to head back to San Jose after 8 years of this.
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I hate being hot so much that I'll take this over coughing up money for an air conditioner any time. I need to make up for how sweltering it was last summer.
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Seattle? When it's clear and sunny it's gorgeous ! But nine months of THAT - I don ;t know how you do it.... God bless. ;)
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God, I would kill for a thunderstorm in Austin... there's still FUCKING POLLEN floating around here! Pollen! People are sneezing from hay fever. Hay Fucking Fever. Don't complain too much... the weather typically sucks no matter where you are. FUCK WILL IT FUCKING RAIN HERE ALREADY?!?! Austin has lots of great qualities, but weather isn't one of them.
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I miss many things about Seattle, one of which is having the Stranger as my local weekly. Thanks for reminding me if what I don't miss.
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Totally sympathize. The other computer in our house is currently being used to research sunnier climes.
At least at Molly Moon's there's still plenty of ice cream and shorter lines - whoo hoo!
At least at Molly Moon's there's still plenty of ice cream and shorter lines - whoo hoo!
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I think it's beautiful weather.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to trim down some of the moss on my back...
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to trim down some of the moss on my back...
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Dan-- LA has been stunningly perfect the last 2 months. Well, OK-- 8 months. Come down and rescue your damn show from whatever state of limbo it got stuck in.
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Love, love, love. 50-65 degrees and overcast-ALWAYS. Just take more Vitamin D, you pansies. The weather doesn't debilitate any of your outdoor activities so shut yer yaps.
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i don't know how it happened , but yesterday - friday - i spent 3 hours in the blazing sun at a winery in woodinville. sun so bright i couldn't read the text on a cell phone in it. i got tan lines.. ( me ..a brother..tan lines...from the damn sun... in seattle ).. my geranium oil mix wore off..and i ended up smelling ripe and fonky. even.hadda come home and take a shower after 3 hours of standing in the sun..
that was yesterday. friday 4:30 until 7:30.. i made a note of it.
that was yesterday. friday 4:30 until 7:30.. i made a note of it.
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we have the same june-weather-phenomenon here in germany. We call it sheep's cold(ness) because all the freshly shorn sheep feel oh so cold.
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The good weather and I will be arriving on Wednesday (seriously, I've never seen gloomy weather in Seattle in summer).
However, gloomy still beats the 93-plus-80%-humidity we've had in the midwest all week.
However, gloomy still beats the 93-plus-80%-humidity we've had in the midwest all week.
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Cloudy weather in Seattle? Uh, what did you expect? This is kinda like moving next to the airport and then complaining about the noise.
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@10--I'm a native and this weather makes me desperately depressed.
Dan, I'm with you. In fact, I'm seriously considering moving back to Phoenix where I lived for a few years. I'm at the point where I'll put up with rampant racism and conservatism for sun.
Dan, I'm with you. In fact, I'm seriously considering moving back to Phoenix where I lived for a few years. I'm at the point where I'll put up with rampant racism and conservatism for sun.
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I'm with Dan on this one. I'm freezing in my house right now. With the heat on.
This is the worst Juneuary ever!
This is the worst Juneuary ever!
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The PNW has the kind of weather that seduces you to spend your day playing in bed with a friend and happily sipping something warm. Embrace it people, it won't last forever. Besides you weather the weather, whatever the weather, whether you like it or not.
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uh, I love the cool grayness of the PacNW too but enough is enough...this is the worst May/June I've experienced since I moved here...we've had, what, 3 niceish days in the last 45?
but, it was good for SIFF so that's good...SIFF doesn't do so well if there's too much nice weather.
but, it was good for SIFF so that's good...SIFF doesn't do so well if there's too much nice weather.
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Fnarf--the giant switch gets flipped a little later up in the Islands: around the 15th. For the newbies: June is sometimes like this up in the left corner of the map. (Strawberry season flatlined in '65, '66). The June of '80 or '81 was a very wet one--rained almost every day. The very leaky Second Stage at 8th and Pike--demolished for the convention center--was a menagerie of assorted pots and pans catching dripping water.
Mr. Savage: this PNW Native would gladly trade you one of those Tom Robbins' greys for an Antebellum Bake-fest. Here in the Deep South this season, we've skipped June and July altogether and have settled on pure August weather. Hellacious. Nothing to do but sip Sweet Tea, while looking like a "soft teacake with frosting from sweating and sweet talcum" by nightfall.
Mr. Savage: this PNW Native would gladly trade you one of those Tom Robbins' greys for an Antebellum Bake-fest. Here in the Deep South this season, we've skipped June and July altogether and have settled on pure August weather. Hellacious. Nothing to do but sip Sweet Tea, while looking like a "soft teacake with frosting from sweating and sweet talcum" by nightfall.
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This is certainly the rainiest, coolest, least-sunny spring that I can recall. I remember being at Gasworks Park for the 4th of July in the late 80s and it was very chilly and rainy but I don't remember the entire spring that year being that way.
I'll take weather like this over 90+ weather but I would like to have some warmth and a little sun because, after all, we only have a few months before we plunge back into the near-constant rain and gloom of fall & winter.
I'll take weather like this over 90+ weather but I would like to have some warmth and a little sun because, after all, we only have a few months before we plunge back into the near-constant rain and gloom of fall & winter.
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@ 10: The natives do not all love it. I hate it. I hate hate hate this state and this awful weather. My family moved here when I was 6 months old, and I've been raised in this horrid, dreary environment. I detest it. I wait all year, counting down the days until bright sunny June. The only thing that makes this state bearable is the summer, and now we're not even getting that?!?
Normally on a day like today, I'd drive to E. Washington or Portland -- there's usually sun somewhere within driving distance. But lately? This crud weather has permeated the entire state (according to weather maps) and oozes into Oregon, Idaho and most of California.
Ugh.
Normally on a day like today, I'd drive to E. Washington or Portland -- there's usually sun somewhere within driving distance. But lately? This crud weather has permeated the entire state (according to weather maps) and oozes into Oregon, Idaho and most of California.
Ugh.
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"We are NOT allowed to complain about the weather because this is Seattle and IT RAINS HERE and you KNEW THAT WHEN YOU MOVED HERE and so while people in other cities are allowed to complain about unseasonable weather YOU ARE NOT because THIS IS SEATTLE and Seattle is DIFFERENT THAN ANYPLACE ELSE and you knew. YOU KNEW." Who said this?
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While I prefer sun to gray skies, there's a huge difference between gray skies and rain. Things like the Fremont Fair Solstice parade (or the fair itself) or Bumbershoot are still enjoyable even if there's not a speck of sun in the sky but it's dry. But they just become soggy and sloppy and miserable (for most people) if it's raining. Thanks to Mother Nature for not emptying her bladder on the Solstice parade yesterday.
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All the fucking whining from *natives*, no less. Born and raised Washingtonian, and, for all you whiners- sun, heat and CA-like weather is a mere 2 hours east. Yes, EAST, over those mountains, to the warm, sunny side of the state. Was beautiful here all weekend. I've lived on both sides, but when retirement time came, it was the sunshine that won out.
Granted, you've got to put up with the gd rednecks and the politics, but that can easily be ignored by any Seattlite, since the world revolves around Seattle anyway.
Come over of a weekend; the house-full of Seattle queers I hosted this weekend had a great time!
Granted, you've got to put up with the gd rednecks and the politics, but that can easily be ignored by any Seattlite, since the world revolves around Seattle anyway.
Come over of a weekend; the house-full of Seattle queers I hosted this weekend had a great time!
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I love it. Born and raised here from a few generations back. So maybe it's in my blood but gimme more gloom and rain and chills. I get way too hot and grumpy when it's sunny and my light sensitive eyes require constant use of sunglasses making me look like a douche. I love layers, I love the cold, I love rain. Love it.
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I would kill for a cloudy, cool day. The afternoon rainstorms are the only break we get from the 90's in Louisiana from May until October. For the past week, it has been close to 90 at midnight. And the heat is hitting me worse this year than it usually does, at least partially because the air conditioner in my aparment leaks and the manager is dragging her feet on getting it fixed (though at least she said she would, which is more than the other managers I've complained to have done). I'm miserable and cranky and stuck here because I'm also broke.
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June is always bad. May's good, July-September is fantastic, but June is always bad.
@10: I think the differences you observe have less to do with people moving to/from Seattle and much more to do with changes in road construction. Plus, 9 PM on a Friday?? I could see 5 PM... but...
@10: I think the differences you observe have less to do with people moving to/from Seattle and much more to do with changes in road construction. Plus, 9 PM on a Friday?? I could see 5 PM... but...
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Dan,
I agree. I just got through monitoring a booth at Fremont Fair. It downpoured for nearly an hour and a half. Bloody cold also.
And, tomorrow is the first day of summer! Sigh. The weather is getting to me as well.
I agree. I just got through monitoring a booth at Fremont Fair. It downpoured for nearly an hour and a half. Bloody cold also.
And, tomorrow is the first day of summer! Sigh. The weather is getting to me as well.
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You should have seen the torrential downpour in Venizia, today. Seriously - it was enough to make me glad I was leaving, and NO ONE in their right mind wants to leave Venizia (even if they are going to Roma)
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Brother Dan! You do know by now, don't you, that the good weather in Seattle doesn't start until after 7/4? And you also know that September and October are the compensation for May and June, right?
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57/Sheryl: The afternoon rainstorms are the only break we get from the 90's in Louisiana from May until October.
I grew up in a state north of you, which can have very hot and muggy days in the summer. But I never experienced humidity like I did the one time I was in New Orleans, in August (the year Hurricane Andrew passed nearby.) I remember walking out of my hotel and feeling like a hot & wet heavy blanket was immediately thrown over me.
I miss thunderstorms though. It's great to have it pour like hell all at once and then stop. Here in Seattle, we just get rain and rain and more rain for days on end and it really gets depressing.
I grew up in a state north of you, which can have very hot and muggy days in the summer. But I never experienced humidity like I did the one time I was in New Orleans, in August (the year Hurricane Andrew passed nearby.) I remember walking out of my hotel and feeling like a hot & wet heavy blanket was immediately thrown over me.
I miss thunderstorms though. It's great to have it pour like hell all at once and then stop. Here in Seattle, we just get rain and rain and more rain for days on end and it really gets depressing.
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@62 - Yeah, I grew up in Pittsburgh, which is surprisingly humid for an essentially midwestern city (guess it's the rivers). But when I moved down here, I learned what heat and humidity really meant. On days when I take my laundry to work with me to go to the laundromat after work, my clothes are soaked by the time I leave work just from sitting in my car all day.
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From March 1 to June 16 -- 108 days -- there have been 78 days of rain. That's almost 75% rainy days.
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Today's heat index high: 95 degrees. Tomorrow's temperature: 90 degrees. Last Thursday's temperature: 70.
Ohio, you temperamental bitch.
I miss clouds and gloom...and storms that don't result in tornado sirens going off.
Ohio, you temperamental bitch.
I miss clouds and gloom...and storms that don't result in tornado sirens going off.
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That picture is a reminder of why, no matter how shitty my life has gotten, no matter how much I miss my friends and my family, and no matter how many times I come back for a week in August and she tries to trap me with that downright dishonest sunshine, I will NEVER go back to Seattle. I remember. And it still hurts.
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I decided I would leave South Carolina when I was 10 years old because I was just too damn sick of the heat. I love the weather here in Seattle. I don't mind overcast skies, I don't care for sun too much. I absolutely hated driving through Kansas because of that damn glare.
Thing is though, Seattle isn't nearly as rainy as it makes itself out to be. It's actually rather sunny most of the summer, and the rain isn't heavy. Most Seattle denizens don't even know what an honest-to-God downpour is like. It's the kind of rain that hurts when it hits you and takes your breath away.
Thing is though, Seattle isn't nearly as rainy as it makes itself out to be. It's actually rather sunny most of the summer, and the rain isn't heavy. Most Seattle denizens don't even know what an honest-to-God downpour is like. It's the kind of rain that hurts when it hits you and takes your breath away.
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and you didn't know about this *before* moving to seattle?!? 200+ days on average...get used to it or leave.
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No, you know what, I've lived in Seattle for 31 years, and this is a shitty June. It's not always like this, it sucks, Dan's right. Everybody talking about, "Dude, it's SEATTLE" can just STFU. This is shitty, even for Seattle.
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Three cheers for the tough-it-out and STFU-and-deal comments. Moved here in 94 from points east, and love it still, all of it. If you don't like it, learn to golf - cloudy and 61 makes for perfect golf weather, and keeps the crowds down.
In August, Chicagoans won't be bragging about their weather, after 150 old farts and 20 infants die of heat stroke.
In August, Chicagoans won't be bragging about their weather, after 150 old farts and 20 infants die of heat stroke.
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