What's the weather like in the seasons? (Seattle, Spokane: move to, area)

[rbmomof3]

So I have this pre-conceived notion that it rains a lot in Washington. I'm not sure why. I've never been to Washington for a visit even. What is like in the summer, dry or humid... is it hot? How about winter, do you get a lot of snow, a little, does it rain a lot? I'd like the nitty gritty down to what the average for a temp is.

We're researching states to find out which ones we might move to next summer.

Rebecca

[CityGirl72]

It's neither dry nor hot in my opinion (in summer)

It gets to the high 60s /70s in July - summer won't start til after 4th of July and ends 8 weeks later

Summer weather in Seattle is like Spring weather to the rest of the Nation.

It doesn't rain here much, but I'd say 75% of the year it's very dark and cloudy, and is this misty drizzle they so lovingly call Mizzle.

[sean98125]

It rains a lot on the west side of the Cascades in the fall, winter and spring. It rains a LOT on the west side of the Olympics. In the winter, anything over 2000 feet is going to see snow, and anything much higher than that is going to have snow on the ground from November through March or early April. Winter temperatures around Puget Sound and along I-5 are typically around 40.

Summer? Depends where you are. On the coast you're lucky to see a day above 80 in the summer. In the Puget Sound area and the lowlands along the I-5 corridor the temperatures are usually around 80 in the summer time and might pop into the mid to upper 90s for a couple of days. The air is humid, but not oppressively so like other parts of the country.

East of the Cascades, you regularly see winter temperatures in the 20s, you see quite a but more snow than the west side, and summers are hot and bone dry.

[Sobefobik]

The winters are awful. The summers are beautiful. If you are looking for a four-season climate, move to the east side of the mountains. Spokane on the east side near Idaho is nice. It gets in the teens in winter time and a lot of snow, and it gets very hot in the summer, frequently in the 90s.

If you are prepared for rainy, cloudy days, then you will love western Washington in the winter. As the person above said, it averages to the 40s in the winter, and it averages to the 80s in the summer. Because of climate changes, we are seeing more and more 100-degree days. This still doesn't happen very often, but it probably does 4 or 5 days out the year.

You will not find a more beatiful summer than in western Washington. It is very mild compared to other parts of the country. It can get humid, but nothing like in other areas. you don't see very many thunderstorms because of that. We don't have flash floods. The fall is also beautiful here. September is my favorite month. It has started to cool down, and we often get the most sunny days in september. June and July are not guaranteed months for nice weather.

The Olympic Rain Forest--as pointed out in the name--gets A LOT of rain, although there is a sun belt in some of these areas. Look this information up on Google. The clouds coming over the Olympic Mountains dump all of their contents in these areas. Because of that, there is no more precipitation left for this "Sun Belt" region. I actually tried to find a map for you, but couldn't. I know that there is info on this, but I just couldn't find any. These towns would include, Port Townsend and Port Angeles.