Washington State Weather Sucks Ass

[sean miguel]

I live in the Puget Sound area of Washington (north of Seattle) and this is no exaggeration - it could literally be WEEKS between days when it's not raining or total cloud cover. This goes on from the end of September thru the end of June basically. I've been a long time resident here so I should be used to it but it's just depressing. Here rain and clouds are the default and mostly sunnydays are the anomaly.


I'm seriously thinking of moving. Fuck this shit.

Anyone thinking of relocating here please take that into consideration.


Here was november's weather:

http://www.weather.com/weather/monthly/USWA0140?month=-1

 

[assari]

You need to move to a place where there are four seasons.

North is a great place to live.

 

[vodkazvictim]

Awwwww.... Why don't you stop playing that violin and come here to Britain?

 

[sean miguel]

Awwwww.... Why don't you stop playing that violin and come here to Britain?

Britain is probably Palm Springs compared to here.

 

[Petra]

Um, there's a reason the term "sun showers" exist.

Of course, you can always just move over to the east side of the state. South east is desert...less rain more sun.

 

[StanScratch]

I know it rains a lot there...but I am still very sure I will be moving to Seattle very soon. Visited earlier in the year, fell in love with the place. Ohio is not exactly known as paradise.

 

[sean miguel]

Um, there's a reason the term "sun showers" exist.

Of course, you can always just move over to the east side of the state. South east is desert...less rain more sun.

I drove through Yakima recently and saw this sign:

I just don't know what'd I'd do over there. Prob learn to drive a tractor or something.

I know it rains a lot there...but I am still very sure I will be moving to Seattle very soon. Visited earlier in the year, fell in love with the place. Ohio is not exactly known as paradise.

I fell in love with it too. Don't get me wrong, western Washington is beautiful (sun setting over the olympic mountains). Just be prepared for the shitty weather 9 months out of the year.


Crap, I still love it here. I'm not moving lol.

 

[Logan1138]

I know it rains a lot there...but I am still very sure I will be moving to Seattle very soon. Visited earlier in the year, fell in love with the place. Ohio is not exactly known as paradise.

Same boat here, Ohio resident who is intrigued by the prospect of moving to the Pacific Northwest (Puget Sound area or Portland, OR). I actually like overcast, rainy weather...but I imagine it probably does get a bit depressing to have those conditions for months at a time.

 

[zeeblofowl_1969]

Awwwww.... Why don't you stop playing that violin and come here to Britain?

I live in Washington and I play soccer with a guy from London who says it rains here much more that there. But I'm not complaining I love the giant fir trees and the summers are brilliant. Always love when we get that first really clear day in march, its still 45 degrees but sunny and everybody is running around in shorts and t-shirts. Its really not the volume its the fact that you can honestly get 120 straight days of it, but the moss just loves it.

Wouldn't live anywhere else this State is one beautiful place. High mountains, low valleys, deserts to the east, Pacific to the west, the Puget Sound, The Columbia River Gorge, and so much more. If you love to fish or hunt is loaded with great areas for both, and almost never get more than a couple of inches of snow in the winter.
Seattle is a seriously fun place for almost anything.

 

[sean miguel]

I live in Washington and I play soccer with a guy from London who says it rains here much more that there. But I'm not complaining I love the giant fir trees and the summers are brilliant. Always love when we get that first really clear day in march, its still 45 degrees but sunny and everybody is running around in shorts and t-shirts. Its really not the volume its the fact that you can honestly get 120 straight days of it, but the moss just loves it.

Exactly. It's just a constant drizzle. We do have the best summers, the problem is it last 8-12 weeks tops.

This is the view looking west from Seattle when it is clear:

 

[STDiva]

It's been raining here for the past couple days too. Pissin me off. On the plus side, rain means no snow. I'd take a rainy winter all day.

 

[Petra]

I drove through Yakima recently and saw this sign:

I just don't know what'd I'd do over there. Prob learn to drive a tractor or something.

Been ages since I've last seen that sign.

I spent a lot of time in Yakima growing up since the National Guard firing center is there. It's not Seattle, but it's not shitty like the Tri-Cities. Then again, I grew up in the tri-cities so I don't have a high opinion (especially since I discovered the sushi place they finally got deep fried their sushi...wtf?). What I like about Yakima is there's lots of nature stuff to do. Hiking, horseback riding, mountain biking, and you're damn near already at Snoqualmi if you like skiing.

 

[Mayhem]

Former resident of Bellingham and Arlington/Everett. My advice is tolerate the rain and don't get talked into moving to the other side. I also spent a few years in East Wenatchee. Christ, what a hillbilly hellhole. Absolutely hated it there and wished I had never moved.

 

[sean miguel]

Former resident of Bellingham and Arlington/Everett. My advice is tolerate the rain and don't get talked into moving to the other side. I also spent a few years in East Wenatchee. Christ, what a hillbilly hellhole. Absolutely hated it there and wished I had never moved.

Haha I'm in Everett now. It's like a larger version of Bremerton.

Eastern Washington is such a drastic change in scenery but I get your point. Maybe a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.

 

[gunslingingbird]

If I could live somewhere where it's cloudy/foggy/rainy/overcast year round I'd be as happy as a pig in shit. I live about an hour east of San Fagcisco. Here, we get a little bit of rain in the winter, and it's a fucking blast furnace in the summer. It's not as bad as Arizona in the summer, but it's somewhere between 90 and 110 from June/July to late September. Then it cools off for a few weeks before the god damned Indian Summer kicks in and the fucking heat comes back for another month. Then we have crazy weather in November. Last month we it was pissing down on us for a few days, followed by 3 days of 90° heat. I just wanna live somewhere where there's always a nice cloud cover, hardly any fucking sun, and regular rain. I'd even be happy if I moved to the Sunset in San Fagcisco, but housing is ridiculously expensive there.

Did I mention I hate hot weather?

 

[sean miguel]

If I could live somewhere where it's cloudy/foggy/rainy/overcast year round I'd be as happy as a pig in shit. I live about an hour east of San Fagcisco. Here, we get a little bit of rain in the winter, and it's a fucking blast furnace in the summer. It's not as bad as Arizona in the summer, but it's somewhere between 90 and 110 from June/July to late September. Then it cools off for a few weeks before the god damned Indian Summer kicks in and the fucking heat comes back for another month. Then we have crazy weather in November. Last month we it was pissing down on us for a few days, followed by 3 days of 90° heat. I just wanna live somewhere where there's always a nice cloud cover, hardly any fucking sun, and regular rain. I'd even be happy if I moved to the Sunset in San Fagcisco, but housing is ridiculously expensive there.

Did I mention I hate hot weather?

Then you need to move up here. The average high temp in the middle of summer is 74 degrees.


Lol I started this thread talkin shit about Washington but ended up selling it.

 

[anomaly]

Maybe move to Florida? I like Seattle weather but it's not for everyone.

 

[Petra]

Maybe move to Florida? I like Seattle weather but it's not for everyone.

I actually moved from south eastern WA to Florida back in 2001....

Going from dry heat to massive humidity was a shock, every gawd damned thing was out to get you. I mean, if you stood on your front lawn you were going to get torn up by fire ants. Huge ass mosquitos, hornets, scorpions, poisonious snakes and spiders, alligators that get confused and wander onto your property....meanwhile WA has some bears and cyotes. Oh and rattle snakes but they're easy to avoid...and then there's the cockroaches. It didn't matter how clean you kept your house those little fuckers managed to show up. Then there's the yearly outdoors infestation of the 'palmetto bugs' which are nothing but huge cockroaches.

And then there's the love bugs that plaster themselves on your car and are damn near impossible to get off once baked on...

Don't forget the hurricanes. The ONLY "diasters" I remember while living in eastern WA is some pretty bad wind storms, fires up in the forest because the forest authority is run by idiots, and there was that one earthquake in the late 90s over in Seattle. I didn't have to evacuate yearly...

So honestly if I had to choose between WA and FL again? I sure as hell wouldn't go back to FL.

 

[squallumz]

the grass and always greener dude.

fuck the sun. give me rain.

 

[Logan1138]

Maybe move to Florida? I like Seattle weather but it's not for everyone.

Ugh. I made the mistake of moving to Florida based on my childhood memories of spending Christmas at my Grandparents' place in FL (I grew up in Ohio).

Horrible humidity, hurricanes, ugly terrain, high cost of living compared to wages paid == Terrible place to live IMO