Gloomy season pics? (Tillamook: transplants, price, suburbs)

[puerco]

Photos don't really tell the whole story of what it's like during the 9-month gloomy period. (With some welcome sunbreaks.) You need to go to Portland in the winter and experience day after day after day after day after day after day after day... of this type of weather. I've experienced absolutely NO glimpse of the sun for the entire month of January several times.

[jm31828]

Originally Posted by puerco

Photos don't really tell the whole story of what it's like during the 9-month gloomy period. (With some welcome sunbreaks.) You need to go to Portland in the winter and experience day after day after day after day after day after day after day... of this type of weather. I've experienced absolutely NO glimpse of the sun for the entire month of January several times.

I think this thread and all the comments posted are just good examples of how things are really not any better anywhere else, and some people just have a preference for the gloom that you experience up there in the winter. Take where I live for example- the summers are sweltering for the most part, making it only comfortable to do anything outdoors later in the evening (although oftentimes it is really hot long after sunset). And then winter is often bitterly cold, with snow and ice most of the season and the landscape is completely brown and dead looking. So that is 2/3rds of the year really that outdoor activity is either nonexistant or at least really undesirable, so the nice summers and mild gloom (yet with green landscape) is a very desirable thing.
I like cloudy, rainy days and we just don't get enough of those here on the Plains, so the NW has always seemed so nice to me. When I was in middle school and early high school I lived in Oregon and really loved the winters.

[burnhams]

I don't mind the gloom. just makes summers all the better!!

[Candle]

Originally Posted by Emery'sMommy

I have absolutely enjoyed seeing these "gloomy" pictures of the Portland area.
I am not from Portland nor have I even step foot in the Pacific NW. I visited SF a few years ago and fell in love with the redwood forest (Muir Woods) and the foggy coastline there. It was such a welcome change to the HOT and dry summers here in Oklahoma.
We just experienced weeks of 100 plus degree weather that absolutely sucks the life out of me. It's depressing that my two boys and I are confined indoors (although they would happily play outside regardless of how hot it is!). I am counting down the days until Autumn when the leaves change and I can layer on clothes again...usually this does not occur until late Oct, early November.

Anyways, these pictures are absolutely beautiful! I love how vibrant the colors are...everything looks SO full of life there. The amount of green is just tantilizing (it is my favorite color).
This just further fuels my fire to move out of the south and into the NW...unfortunately that will have to wait a good 5-10 yrs from now (Okc is CHEAP and my husband is secure in his job, moving forward). One day he dreams of working for Microsoft (or any other big software/IT company out there) but that will have to wait until he's gained more experience as a programmer...we are young and near our family here. Can't beat having free babysitters for the kids!

But one day, I am determined to get us out of here....until then I can just dream of dreary days and cool summers where I never have to worry about 100+ degree weather again.

We're supposed to have 90s and 100s next week. It got up to 84 today though...and only 75 yesterday.

[DreamWeavin]

won't last long though and the humidity is never high.

Try living in the deep south where the temps are 100+ with humidity 100% for about 9 months of the year.



ahhhhhh.......the Pacific NW--gotta love it!

Originally Posted by Candle

We're supposed to have 90s and 100s next week. It got up to 84 today though...and only 75 yesterday.

[Emery'sMommy]

Originally Posted by DreamWeavin

won't last long though and the humidity is never high.

Try living in the deep south where the temps are 100+ with humidity 100% for about 9 months of the year.



ahhhhhh.......the Pacific NW--gotta love it!

Yep the deep south is the worst! I lived in Houston (not technically deep south) for 11 yrs and it was horribly humid. Heck, Hawaii was TOO humid for me and it was only in the 80's there.
I definitely wouldn't mid the 90's and 100's a handful of days or even a few weeks the entire year. But here in Oklahoma, it's 90+ on average 3-4 months, ugh. Thankfully it's a dry heat but every summer I want to move.

[Neal2009]

The summer in the deep south is hell on earth. I cant believe I endure 11 of them. I remember seeing the high temperature get above 90 in late May and it didnt get below 90 until late September. Even then it wasnt October until you felt you were really out of it. I would go out every night and take a walk around 10 pm and at that time the temperature was what is many times a high temperature in the summer here in the northwest. The summers took everything out of me while I was there and I had such terrible energy problems which I would gladly like to forget.

In the northwest the summers couldnt be any more perfect, its like paradise. I laugh hysterically when I hear the natives complaining when its 80 to 90 degrees and its "too hot" to go outside. Not to be negative, but I want to slap them when they say that. Plus it isnt all that bad when it gets to 90 over 100 here, as there is so much shade, the coast is significantly cooler and 90 minutes away, and it cools down to the 60s at night and doesnt warm up completely til 1 or 2 pm. All in all life is good here in the summer

[sayulita]

I have lived and traveled all over the world and I think the weather here in the Northwest is darn near perfect. If we have extremes (heat wave or cold snap) they only last about a week then it's back to normal. All the seasons here are beautiful, no noticeable humidity 99% of the time and cleansing rain that keeps it green all year. Have lived here for more than 30 years and love it more each day.

[sayulita]

Picking up on this older thread, I'm inspired today because it is one of those delicious gray, gloomy rainy days that so many of us in this thread love. I woke up today to the sound of rain on the roof. It's about 55 degrees so can still keep the window open a bit. I read the paper and drank coffee to that lovely sound. The trees outside are all colors of red and gold and the falling leaves waft through the air. It's going to last all day I think and I couldn't be happier. Time to make a big pot of soup and revel in the coziness of it all. Ahh! I so love the Pacific Northwest.

[Jen54]

ahhhhhhh sayulita!!! you HAVE to post some pics!!! what you described is a perfect day! wish I was there right this minute to experience it!!!!