I'm confused: 4 seasons or 9 months of drizzle? (Seattle: houses, living)

[sberdrow]

Originally Posted by tada

Quite honestly, I'd rather have a "harsh" winter than Seattle's winter. There's easy ways to get around winters in other places (heating, clothes). It's much much harder to get around the depression that gray causes.

Case in point: A cold (albeit at least somewhat sunny), 2-3 month snowy winter is far more tolerable to me than a long, gray, depressing, suicide-inducing, long, long, long, long, when will it ever end winter.

Colorado is for you. Lots of sun, average amount of snow. ALmost never rains except in summer.

[sberdrow]

Originally Posted by CityGirl72

I like Seattle in the Winter - Winter is nice, I like it when it snows. I think Winter should be like that.

It's the Fall & Spring I'm not thrilled about. Fall is too cold (for me) and wet for Fall. And Spring never arrives.

Washington offers its residents the one of the most beautiful Fall Seasons in the Nation. All that green mixed in with all the changing colors....magnificent. The springs are fantastic too with all the blossoms in the trees. They are usually sunny seasons mixed in with some rain. It smells so fantastic to be walking around when the leaves are falling. The moisture in the leaves has a nice fresh natural sent. Makes me feel glad to be alive. Don't look at the grey during the winter, look at all the green. The places that have lots of blue skies during the winter, also have dead looking vegitation. Its a trade off. Grey skies for green grass and evergreen trees. Or places like coloardos front range (and midwest) with brown flat gound, meets blue skies. You also get to enjoy tornados, dust storms, blizzards ect.

You can live down here in Phoenix, where we have trees that survive the heat, and you have the blue skies, but youll die of skin cancer soon enough.

Remember its GREEN not grey, and you will be just fine.

[tada]

Originally Posted by sberdrow

Colorado is for you. Lots of sun, average amount of snow. ALmost never rains except in summer.

See my location, see where I want to live. Fall and Spring are mild temperatures (60s and 70s) and mostly sunny. Winter is 50s but still sunny; in fact, the driest time of the year. Summer sucks a bit; rainy season is from June to mid-July, and the rest of summer is hot (90s and humid quite often). Overall, I'm sure many would agree much better than Seattle's weather.

Of course, weather is trivia compared to why I want to live there. Yet in Seattle, weather is everything I hate. Funny how that works.

[Haakon]

Originally Posted by Alicia64

One more question: hope you're not sick of me yet!

People keep saying that you get 9 months of drizzle and gray all year long. And then people also say that Seattle gets four seasons.

To me, these two statements don't go together. They're in opposition.

Can you help clarify?

Thanks again!

Alicia

It's all perception. Summers are great, but brief. How many cloudy days does it take to make you go nuts? Is 3 or 4 sunny days a month (on average) for nearly half the year enough sun for you? It's cloudy 55% of the year in Seattle according to CityRating.

Seattle Weather History - CityRating.com


Or you could look at the City-Data graphs for Seattle. It doesn't get down to freezing all that often in Seattle so nearly all of those days with precip are rain.

http://pics2.city-data.com/w7/cld23292.png (broken link)

http://pics2.city-data.com/w6/sun23292.png (broken link)

[keith talent]

Originally Posted by tada

See my location, see where I want to live. Fall and Spring are mild temperatures (60s and 70s) and mostly sunny. Winter is 50s but still sunny; in fact, the driest time of the year. Summer sucks a bit; rainy season is from June to mid-July, and the rest of summer is hot (90s and humid quite often). Overall, I'm sure many would agree much better than Seattle's weather.

Of course, weather is trivia compared to why I want to live there. Yet in Seattle, weather is everything I hate. Funny how that works.

Funny, lots of Japanese have moved to East Tennessee (I used to live in Knoxville) because the weather and greenery remind them of home. Too bad about the fire-breathing Southern Baptists, though!

[Alicia Amparo]

Originally Posted by Alicia64

One more question: hope you're not sick of me yet!

People keep saying that you get 9 months of drizzle and gray all year long. And then people also say that Seattle gets four seasons.

To me, these two statements don't go together. They're in opposition.

Can you help clarify?

Thanks again!

Alicia

Hi...funny my name is also Alicia and I've just moved back East from the Seattle area (Redmond) I fell in love with Seattle from my first visit which was in October 1994. At the time we were living in the Florida Keys-moved there in Oct.'96
Personally, I think it does have the four seasons. The pros and cons are to be measured on a very individual scale of ideas.... 'summer' is very, very short I loved the hot weather without the humidity but at the same time (if you're lucky) it's only part of July and August. Usually Sept-Nov were my favorite months because I had never experienced the beauty of the color changes in so many different kind of trees. Then comes the rain with many cloudy days...and if rain and cloudy days make you depressed...forget living there!!!
I also liked that the temperature is not 'freezing cold' all winter long, we don't get to shovel snow like people in the midwest or even other parts of Washington...a crisp, clear winter day without rain is fabulous, but I was never able to enjoy swimming in the pools or lakes, I just was just too used to the warm tropical Florida blue waters...
One of my favorite drives was across the 520 floating bridge with Mt. Rainier and the Cascades on one side and Olympic Mountains on the other. But then again, everything has it's time and place in life and for me it was time to move on...now I'm in Charleston,SC
Where are you from and what do you do?
Quote: 'If you like rainbows, you've got to put up with the rain"

[Alicia64]

Hi Alicia! I'm from Sacramento and am a sahm which is why I'm a tad nervous about the weather. You have a great attitude.

City Girl ~ People are making fun of Sac, but I spent all afternoon watching my boys play with friends at a neighbor's pool. Beautiful blue sky. Heaven.

Everyone ~ An entire life shouldn't be built around weather. . . except if you're prone to SAD. If you're not and the weather doesn't bother you and works for you: great. But I know that I get bummed in a Sacramento January. So Seattle would likely effect me.

But I wish the weather didn't matter b/c Seattle seems awesome.

[CityGirl72]

I know - they all think I'm crazy for liking Sac more then Seattle

But it's noon and the Seattle Times says it is 58 degrees and cloudy

Sacramento Bee says it's 74 degrees and sunny

[joplinlb]

7-Day Planner


http://bimedia.ftp.clickability.com/fishwebftp/KOMO/4_6day.jpg (broken link)

This looks pretty perfect to me!

[CityGirl72]

But DURING the day it's not those temps - those are the HIGHS which hit around 5 or 6 pm

At 1 pm it's now 60 degrees and cloudy - yeah for Spring!, Oops I mean summer!