If you don't like the rain in NJ, move to Seattle, as it gets significantly less rain than NJ, which generally averages 45-50" of precipitation per year, depending on where you are, while Seattle averages about 37" per year, although it's definitely true that Seattle is cloudier and has more days with measurable rain. We also get much more snow in most of NJ: ~28" in Newark and most points along the I-95 corridor, with more inland of that and north of 78, and less as one goes down the Shore, with only ~16" per year in AC, vs. 7.3" per year in Seattle (and 11.4" at Seattle-Tacoma airport, which is at a higher elevation than the Seattle station). Of course, the mountains around Seattle get much more snow than NJ.
If anyone is interested, the Wiki sites for Seattle and Newark, AC and other NJ cities all have good climate summaries, although the data aren't as extensive as the data one can get from the National Weather Service and other sites. See the two links for cities in the Seattle area and in the Newark area: for any one of these, simply select the "Now Data" tab, then select the data you want in the one through five sections (product, location, variable, year and view) and you can get monthly averages and yearly totals for rain and snow, temperature and precip averages and extremes, etc (although the long term data are only from 1971-2000, which can sometimes be a bit anomalous vs. 100+ year data). Good stuff, if you like weather and climate.
National Weather Service Climate
National Weather Service - NWS Seattle
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