Rains Nearly Every Day - So Depressing (Portland: summer, windows)

[CAjerseychick]

Not sure if its global warming or what, but had a huge bumper crop of tomatoes last year and its been sooooo dry this year- sunny and dry....

Maybe Portland is where you want to be, for these extreme times.....

[redhotstoboiledpenuts]

All this talk about how horrible the weather is somewhere else. Ever think your body is accosumed to where you lived for most of your life.
Half the people who relocated around the us would move back to there starting point but are unable to because they can't afford it anymore .

[oregon911]

It's been unusually dry and sunny since last June. We got no rain between first week of June and middle of October. Then we got very little rain between October and February. Now it's back to being sunny again. We didn't have a winter at all this year.

[psichick]

I was thinking about this thread last week when my family/friends in SoCal were complaining about the 110 degree heat....at the coast! Cuz y'know, perfect weather down there, right?

Can someone turn down the heat, please? We don't need this much.

[Hapa1]

Originally Posted by psichick

I was thinking about this thread last week when my family/friends in SoCal were complaining about the 110 degree heat....at the coast! Cuz y'know, perfect weather down there, right?

Can someone turn down the heat, please? We don't need this much.

I’m back in Portland, and it’s unbelievably hot! I’m glad to be moving here, but I hope that future summers aren’t like this! I can’t wait for clouds and light rain again!

[Rob Allen]

Summers are likely to be this hot for the next century at least.

[pdxMIKEpdx]

Sorry to burst a ton of peoples bubbles, but this is very typical weather for a Portland summer.

Late July and August get sunny and hot.

Enjoy it while it lasts.

[Sherwoody]

Originally Posted by pdxMIKEpdx

Sorry to burst a ton of peoples bubbles, but this is very typical weather for a Portland summer.

Late July and August get sunny and hot.

Enjoy it while it lasts.

And pray we don't get the smoke we had last year.

[jjpop]

I was just in San Diego last week (July), and many people I came in contact with thought I would appreciate escaping the cool wet weather of the PNW for the dry warmth of Southern California. They were universally surprised when I told them it was hotter in Portland than it was in S.D.

It always gets into the 90s here in Portland. Any summer we do not get 90 degree weather is the odd summer.

[nightbird47]

Originally Posted by redhotstoboiledpenuts

All this talk about how horrible the weather is somewhere else. Ever think your body is accosumed to where you lived for most of your life.
Half the people who relocated around the us would move back to there starting point but are unable to because they can't afford it anymore .

The lucky ones don't. We usually have rosey memories of the house, the weather and most else. But especially if you were a kid or grew up in an area very much like it, but in reality its never really been just that, except through inexperienced lens. And there was a reason you moved away. Maybe it didn't turn out right, or you discovered it wasn't so good for you as it seemed it would. But when you got the chance to go, you moved on.


Sometimes the places we came from were but aren't anymore, but they make new places when they change, and often your cherished memories are no more than that now. You don't remember the crowds, the size, the traffic, the heat or the smog. Maybe you have hazy memories of storm season. And even if the place hasn't changed much physically, maybe it used to be an up and coming place but now its an afterthought.


And you might have been a kid, and the best memories, the ones we keep was when Mom and Dad and your grandmother went out to special places on the weekend, but now you barely remember your grandmother, and parents are either older or gone, and its like when your grandmother went to some afterlife, she took something with her too.


Or it may be that as you haven't been there for a decade or more, you just remember it was 'hot', not HOW 'hot', or how miserable it was. And you can breath at home, but forgot how where that cherished place was the air was grey and the smog report was more important than the weather.


I've considered going back to California, but NOT any of the places I lived. I'd still like small town Norcal, one place in particular, but read that they are hot reality and cost wayyyy wayyy too much now. And this has to be a place where I will stay, so it can't be a stop gap sort of place. And likely it just won't be the same. It's true, you can't go home again.


Maybe take a trip, go visit an area which interests you. Don't go by the pr on the place, the traffic and the what it used to be. Expect to find some places are at best cousins to the one in your memories. And when you get over the dissapointment, then start looking at the reality.


No, you can't have everything. But you can listen to what the reality of those memories say and maybe its time to move on from now and back then.