I'm confused: 4 seasons or 9 months of drizzle? (Seattle, Spokane: schools, to live)

[urbnfaery]

Originally Posted by pwright1

We definately have 4 seasons. I've been taking pictures in Seattle during all four seasons for a few years now.

If you wouldn't mind posting a few for all to see that would be lovely!

Hasn't the weather been amazing all week long? Seattle summers can't compare and are worth some rain I think!

[tada]

In my opinion, we only have two seasons: summer and not summer. Maybe three; spring has enough of a temperature difference and is generally has more sun than fall/winter to be distinct. However, fall and winter definitely blend together.

There is a huge variation on how long the days are, how much sun we get, and how much rain we get throughout the year though, so it may seem like four seasons to some.

[VeronikaW]

Having lived on the east coast, in the midwest, in Southern and Northern CA, and now WA, I can say while Seattle doesn't have the 4 seasons you might see in the midwest or the east coast, it has more of 4 seasons then say most of CA.

I found the fall colors to be pretty, though short lived. I enjoyed our day of being snowed in at the Issaquah Highlands, and I like that summer is short, and not very hot.

I do feel like most of the weather all sort of blends together, except when summer really starts, and you definitely know it then. Fall, winter and spring sort of just mesh together, and it's hard to tell where they begin and end.

I'm not sure where the OP is moving from, so to tell her that Seattle has 4 seasons, and she comes from upstate NY or MN or something, she's going to be disappointed.

It's all relative.

V. =)

[Ira500]

I find it pretty amusing that a lot of us live in the same area, but when asked about the weather, our responses are so different. If the question is " Do we have four seasons in Seattle?", I'm reading responses ranging from " No, there's only one season, and that's horrible nasty cold gloomy suicide weather" to " No, there's only one season but it's gentle and pleasant", to " Yes, there's four seasons and they're all great except for this little drizzly blip in the winter."

[Freebird2007]

Originally Posted by Jennibc

Every place has a fall, winter, spring, and summer. BUT, if you mean four seasons in the sense of a crisp Autumn with fall colors, a white, snowy winter, a rainy spring with flowers, and warm/hot sunny summer, then no we don't have "four seasons" I lived in New England for a while and there we had four seasons.

in NE we did not have 4 seasons....it was 3 at best......fall colors.....blizzardry winters and then onto hot sticky summers.

[sean98125]

We have four seasons:

Rainy
Windy and rainy
Sunny with a chance of rain
Rainy and windy

[HeyJoe]

From what I recall about living in Hawaii we only had one season. So no, not everywhere has 4 distinct seasons.

[jamesandveybe]

Seattle does too have summer... all four weeks of it!

[Destructoman!]

Seattle definitely has four seasons, but it takes living here a while to notice the subtleties that define them. If you are moving here from the New England, the Midwest or the Western states it sure won't feel like it has four seasons at first.

[tada]

Originally Posted by jamesandveybe

Seattle does too have summer... all four weeks of it!

No... There was the summer of 2006 where we got about 4 months of summer, and the non-existant summer of 2007 (yay, paradox!) where we got 0 months of summer. It varies.