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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

[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.