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[jazzfish]

It's raining. Honest-to-gosh raining, dark and cold, veiling the world in mist and drizzle. Stepping out the door this morning, into the cold and wet and soft wind, I felt utterly renewed. I hadn't realised how unbearably dry August has been until now. I've been waiting my whole life for this rainstorm.

I spend so much of summer focused on knowing that fall comes immediately after. Tonight, I felt cold outside for the first time in months. It was awesome, and I felt a sense of physical possibility and movement towards something.
--fuzzyamy

The early-morning sense that anything could happen. The curious unmistakeable hiss of wet tires on wet asphalt as headlights grow large and rush past. (All cars are grey in the dark.) The quiet communion with a world poised and ready for . . . something.

Feeling the wind rise up tonight, I remember how much I love the feel of a storm arriving . . . One way or another, everything is going to be cleansed in the aftermath.
--baranoouji

Comments

[pictsy.livejournal.com]

I also feel very excited at the first whiff of fall. Summer is so mundane, but fall and winter are when the mythology comes pouring out.

[vond.livejournal.com]

Though I'm a fan of fall myself, summer doesn't have to be mundane if you get out of the city. Fall, winter, and spring have a humanizing effect on the city (I'll never forget fall in Kyoto) but summer in cities is just freakin' unpleasant.

[pictsy.livejournal.com]

Well, I really meant that fall brings all the pageantry of "the holidays," leading in with Halloween.

[fuzzyamy.livejournal.com]

Well put.

[pictsy.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

[fuzzyamy.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. I just figured out who you are, and that at one point, we actually knew each other off the internet. Hey, nice seeing you.

[pictsy.livejournal.com]

Yes, hello :)
It took me a minute to figure out which Amy you were, until I saw your face icon!

[jazzfish]

*smile* Quite true.

[tulip-tree.livejournal.com]

Hurray for rain! We had a similar rainstorm here on Monday night... not nearly as much or as long (we didn't have the force of a tropical storm behind ours) but still, it was the first real rain in almost two months, and it was amazing. Everyone who says it rains all the time in Seattle hasn't been here in the summer, and this has been a particularly dry summer. Even in the "rainy season" (aka all the months that are not July/August/September) it is an exciting event for me when it actually rains hard enough that you can hear the rain pounding on the roof. Monday's rain was like that, and I loved it. I think I have an idea of how you feel about the rain where you are today. Glad you're enjoying it!

[jazzfish]

*smile* exactly.

Grant Emery, who you may or not know (year behind us at Jefferson) and who is currently in the Seattle area, says that "Rain: 30%" in most places means that there's a 30% chance of 100% rain and a 70% chance of no rain, but in Seattle it's a 100% chance of '30% rain,' which is an almost-solid misty drizzle. I suspect this will drive me nuts and force me to look elsewhere for Permanent Accomodations, but we shall see.

[tulip-tree.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm... his name is vaguely familiar but I don't think I know him. He's right about the weather here for a good chunk of the winter, though. We get about as much rain as Virginia does, maybe even less, but it's spread out over a much larger number of days, hence the drizzly stuff. I actually don't mind the '30% rain' - once you get used to it and buy a decent jacket, you just go about your life and do whatever you'd do outside anyway. It does get old after a while, but most of the time it's kind of nice. (Take my current opinion with a grain of salt - it's still summer, so rain is a rarity. In March I'll probably be tired of the drizzle.)

The other way to look at weather forecasts in Seattle (for much of the year, anyway) is to figure that they're always right for at least 30 minutes of the day, because everything changes so quickly. I really like those days - sun, clouds, drizzle, sun, rain showers, rainbows, crazy clouds flying across the sky, sun, etc, etc. :) We have really awesome sky and clouds here.

Anyway... I'm sounding a bit like a commercial for Seattle or something, which is silly. My point is just that the weather here is often a lot more interesting than the stereotypes. I think you said you'll be here in October... it's really anybody's guess what the weather will be like then.

[darkfyre-muse.livejournal.com]

I miss sitting on the upstairs porch feeling the storm roll across the lake. It just doesn't rain like that out here. The rolling, soul renewing type of rain that leaves everything new and lush. But yes fall comes, and while summer here will last until November during the day. At night fall settles in and blows through the night like a cleasning breath.

[jazzfish]

See, that right there is why I've ruled out California as a place to live. I bitch a lot about heat, but I love me some weather. And the land of Perpetually Seventy And Clear can't give me that.

[rbandrews]

You're in a particularly good place for Fall. Blacksburg is better though, especially the campus. When the wind blows (which is constantly) everything makes a whooshing crackling noise, it's the perfect temperature all the time, all the people who went away over the summer are back, and all your classes are still in the stage where it's fun to learn new things, and not yet to the stage where you want the idiots to just shut up and let you graduate already.

[jazzfish]

Most definitely. Spring and summer I can get my fill of out here, and even winter with the iced-over trees and the freak snowstorms will be nice.

I'm about to start missing autumn in the mountains something fierce, though.

[kathleenroberts.livejournal.com]

Rain? Send some my way please. Oh, that's right wrong direction. I haven't seen rain since we moved here. Lots of fog though. Every morning. Thick enough so that your windshield wipers get used even if it doen't rain.

[jazzfish]

Mmm, fog. A good solid fog is almost enough to make me reconsider never living in the Place Of No Weather.