It’s 60 degrees right now at the Stranger Weathercenter, and we’re experiencing 100% of the 60% chance of showers at the moment. The sky is all clouds, but just now getting slightly less gloomy. High today: 67 degrees.
Coming up, per the National Weather Service:
New York will have a high near 90 today. I’m glad to be where you don’t get sweaty again the second you step out of the shower—going to put on some special boots and enjoy this strange July.
UPDATE! 2:55 p.m.: Sun! And 68 degrees! Take that, forecast!
@33 Agreed. I don’t mind the cooler weather, I just wish the sky would clear up a bit. My parents are visiting from Ontario, Canada this week and I’d like them to actually be able to see the mountains before they leave.
So yes, there are millions of sunny places in the world. Find one, move there, STFU.
Flagstaff seems delightful from the windows of the Southwest Chief. The station is adorable, and the neighborhood is lively.
You guys are lucky, here in NJ it is too damn hot, up to 95 today
@34. Why are you going to Tri-Cities? Run out of women to rape in Kent?
And then it will hit 100 in August like it did two years ago and everyone will be complaining about that.
One thing I love about this weather is that every time we have a summer like this, it drives a lot of people to move away. Never enough of ’em, though.
Look, this is Seattle. Seattle has its rep for a reason. I don’t understand moving here and then complaining that it has a cool grey marine climate. It’s like moving to Phoenix and complaining that the summers are hot and dry. Moving to Orlando and complaining about humidity. Last time I checked, the freeways allowed people out, too.
I’d like to have a few warmer days, too, but I can take a certain amount of pleasure knowing that fewer tourists will be fooled by this July into moving here. (It seems as if most of the people who move here and then incessantly complain first visited on a glorious July day.)
“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” –Mark Twain
the local cultural rule to slam anyone expressing any negative views is oppresive and puritanical. some don’t like the rain. let them say so. dont be such wet blankets with your fake smiley faces. there’s more rules here than in saudi arabia.
the reason people move here and complaint about some things is no place is perfect and to think that everything where you go to has to be 100% GREAT is really mindless. Seattle has it’s tens, and its fours. Tens is natural beauty water and mountains. weather, not so much.
the insistence that “if you move here you may not complain about anything about it here” is very stalinist and puritanical and actually fairly ignorant. flagstaff seems nice, why are the locals so threatened if someone thinks someplace else is nice?
people in NYC like lots of things abou it. they’re proud of lots of things there. but they also know some parts of it suck big time and they don’t get their knickers in a twist like little old church ladies if a tourist of vistitor points out, you know, some things about this place aren’t so hot.
the unending hostility seattleites have to others is also very impolite and hostile. it’s like when you go to the ozarks and the local fear outsiders. it’s backwards. it’s not one of the great things about it here. to sum up:
nature access, 10.
weather: 5. that means sometimes 10, sometimes 2, so okay to bitch about it sometimes, got it?
balanced lifestyles: 10.
friendliness of people: 4.
opportunities to be different: 10.
warmth and hospitality extended to those not from here: -10.
on balance a B+. Lots of places are worse, granted. This doesn’t mean everything in Seattle is AWESOME AND YOU BETTER SAY SO OR ELSE MOVE BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM as too many locals seem to think in their threatened, insecure way.
Don’t compare our shitty summer weather with other shitty summer weather! Our reward for putting up with grey skies and rainy weather for 9 to 10 months is that we have very blue skies after 1pm in the summer. So shut the fuck up about, oh its 115 in Arizona, how would you like to be there. UGH!
i dont bitch about the winters because i understand that seattle is rainy, damp & dreary, but when the summer is the same as winter, then i bitch. i love taints remarks. she says it like it is. i love being outdoors in the summertime. i dont have a car so i bike or walk & im sorry, but i dont find it enjoyable walking in cloudy, cool temperatures in the middle of summer. thats what winters are for. if someone were to hand me a shit load of money i think id move back to nyc where they actually have 4 seasons because quite frankly im sick & tired of bitching about seattle summers(when we have them)