Ok so I know it rains in Seattle, everyone knows this. I always though when everyone told me how often it rains that they were over exaggerating. Until I visited Seattle last April. Holy crap! I was there 1 week. Rained every single day and Most of my time, because of work, was one a huge area of flat land. It was flat land and the rain was up above my ankles!
Was this because it was a super rainy season or is this normal
Well I'm surprised you found a huge area of flat land in Seattle, because Seattle is nothing but hills EVERYWHERE. It does rain a lot, but it doesn't really POUR here. It often sprinkles in the morning and clears up by afternoon, so yeah it rains but I never bring an umbrella.
Maybe it's because I've never lived anywhere else, but it doesn't really seem to rain very much here at all, it just seems to be CLOUDY.
in the spring it's not unusual to have 30 days straight of rain, but you still never need an umbrella, it's more like mist. This last week is unusually heavy from a storm that has hit Oregon and even California. With the timing, the leaves are clogging the storm sewers hence the standing water. Most people here would rather have that rain and maybe 1-2 snows that stick than all the snow you get over there. I think I'd prefer something in between. My Mom is between Port Angeles and Sequim, northeast of here, and they get only 1/4 the rain we do, 9-10" a year.
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Originally Posted by bisjoe
in the spring it's not unusual to have 30 days straight of rain, but you still never need an umbrella, it's more like mist. This last week is unusually heavy from a storm that has hit Oregon and even California. With the timing, the leaves are clogging the storm sewers hence the standing water. Most people here would rather have that rain and maybe 1-2 snows that stick than all the snow you get over there. I think I'd prefer something in between. My Mom is between Port Angeles and Sequim, northeast of here, and they get only 1/4 the rain we do, 9-10" a year.
Not where I live. NE Wash is like a steady shower.....of course it makes everything green and keeps our river flowing.....
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I lived out there for about six years when I was in the Navy. I always tell people in Minnesota that it really doesn't rain that much more than it snows in the winter. That being said I don't think it has really snowed since all that much since I came back to the state.
I remember it not raining for sixty plus days one summer when I was stationed in Bangor. I also remember it raining the entire month of December one year also. I would move back if life hadn't caught me in Minnesota.
You know what they say. If you can't see Mount Rainer it's raining. If you can see Mount Rainer it's going to rain.
Perhaps Mom Nature wanted to make a liar out of me, we set a record with 1.5" of rain in 24 hours on Monday. Oh, and tied a 1946 record for heat today at 74.
I remember that year that we got 60 days of no rain in summer, normally it's
6 weeks max.
If we are to believe the weather people, this will be a cold winter with lots of snow (instead of rain).
You could always look at it like this. With so many people living in a small area and everyone driving a car. If it didn't rain imagine the smog. The mountains would hold it in and it would just be horrible.
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