This is ideal Seattle weather. Anyone who doesn't like it can move to Arizona.

Shorter version: "AAAAAAH!!!!! WATER FALLING FROM THE SKY!!!!!"

But yeah, although I won't be at the Sorrento, I will be reading quietly at home tonight, so I understand the appeal.

You're wrong, Mr. Irons. The ideal Seattle weather is a strong, hard, proud rain.

I've been wanting to check this out, so I'll be there.

I dispute that assertion as well. Nobody who had ever so much as visited the east coast would mistake any typical Seattle precipitation for strong, hard, or particularly proud.

Mr. Frizzelle, I must side with Mr. Irons, at least insofar as historically, drizzle has been Seattle's middle name. Your rain sounds hottt, though!

I take comfort in the knowledge that this weather will end in July and won't start back up until September.

It was nearly 100 degrees in parts of Long Island today, so count your blessings.

Mr Frizzelle, I must also side with 5 & 6.

It was at college in the Midwest where I learned the terms "gully-washer" and "frog-strangler." Many times I have bemoaned the fact that Seattle has no decent window-rattling thunder boomer storms, to say nothing of frog-strangling rain.

We do, however, have the most diverse neighborhood in America (hey, Columbia City!), so that is certainly some consolation.

We call it global wettening.

Did we mention summer is short around here? Now you have to pay for those sunny t-shirt days earlier in the year ...

I wish we had summer thunderstorms.

Yes, I understand it's typical, but how is it "ideal"?

It is not ideal.

Seattle has summers better than everywhere else. Literally Perfect Summers. I am annoyed at this current springtime drear as anyone else, but come on, the Perfect Summer so common to Seattle is almost here!

@ 10 & 12: Agreed, I miss my midwest thunderstorms somethin' fierce. Though the windstorms are neat.

We used to have lots of awesome lightning storms around here when I was young. I miss those.

Flanders & Swann's English lament "The Months (A Song of the Weather)" works for Seattle too:

January brings the snow
Makes your feet and fingers glow.

February's ice and sleet
Freeze the toes right off your feet.

Welcome March with wint'ry wind
Would thou wert not so unkind.

April brings the sweet Spring showers
On and on for hours and hours.

Farmers fear unkindly May
Frost by night and hail by day.

June just rains and never stops
Thirty days and spoils the crops.

In July the sun is hot.
Is it shining? No, it's not.

August, cold and dank and wet,
Brings more rain than any yet.

Bleak September's mist and mud
Is enough to chill the blood.

Then October adds a gale
Wind and slush and rain and hail.

Dark November brings the fog
Should not do it to a dog.

Freezing wet December; then
Bloody January again!

it was 85 in atlanta today. Too bad I get back tomorrow at 10pm, its going to feel extra cold