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:

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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!

60 replies on “Summer in Seattle”

  4. I really enjoy this stuff. And honestly much of this month has been really nice…sunny and not too hot.

    And before anyone complains…you could be in Texas. I mean that place God is fucking frying!!

  6. Again, this isn’t so strange for Seattle and/or the coastal Pacific Northwest. There were two or three summers in the 90s where I remember the newly arrived bitching on the bus about having to wear sweaters in July (I secretly hoped they’d get fed up and go back from where they came).

    The best weather months in Seattle have always been August, September, and even October. It’s just that the days are somewhat shorter.

    I know some people love the heat, but Bethany’s quite right. I’d take this weather over 90 degrees anytime – particularly when you realize that nothing in Seattle is air-conditioned. Eighty-five degrees in Seattle can be miserable.

    So, be cool. Summer will come around. This is just one of those years where it’s going to be brief.

  7. At least today it’s raining early so we aren’t having the all day humidity build up of the past few days. Sucks to feel sweaty at 65 degrees.

  10. It doesn’t really suck for ALL of us, since I personally LOVE all these clouds protecting my pale skin from being burned, and the nice warm rain that make it so lush and extremely GREEN around here, coming from eastern WA where there are actual TUMBLEWEEDS, no rain for weeks on end and the only trees for miles around are planted / irrigated, that to me is what ‘SUCKS’. Anyways there are plenty of vacancies over there if anyone wants to GTFO and head across the mountains !!! 🙂

  11. Cliff Mass thinks it’s odd:

    I have followed the weather around here for a long time and I can’t remember such sustained cool, cloudy weather during the middle to end of July (including what is going to occur).

    According to his blog.

  15. I should have moved there when I had the chance. Most of this week, we’ve had temperatures in the mid 90s with 100% humidity. You’d step outside, and your skin and clothing would immediately get damp. It’s miserable.

    At least we’re finally getting rain. Louisiana has been in a major drought all year.

  20. this place is fucking lame and anyone who defends the weather here is a fucking vampire. i can’t wait to get the fuck out of seattle. what a shithole.

  22. this is unusual for July in this year. and I actually enjoy it when it’s 80 degrees in Seattle. It’s warm, nice and I can wear shorts w/o feeling that chill in the air. Also the boys are half naked when it’s 80 here 🙂

    In NYC, the boys are half naked when it’s 90 degrees. Can anyway say “Cazwell – Ice Cream Truck”

  24. i can wear shorts in the 60s without being cold and the girls are half naked in the 60s I seem to see =) 80-85 is fineish but after that starts to get too warm

  25. I have a national convention coming in to town next week, and so far one of the most frequent things I’ve heard from people – and mind you they’re coming from literally every part of the country – is how much they’re looking forward to getting some respite from the blistering heat and brain-sogging humidity most of them have been experiencing recently.

  26. I’m in Dallas. Yesterday was 107 fucking degrees and this is our 15th consecutive day of 100+ temps. (The average is 95.) Stop beotching. 🙂

    Global warming doubters: hop on a Southwest flight here and I’ll show you the future.

  27. It rained on us at the Sounders for about three minutes, but then the sun came out and it was PERFECT. And we won again. I don’t really anything in the world to complain about. If you do, I’m sorry. It must suck to be unhappy. So I hear.

  29. As someone from the midsouth – I’m so happy to be here. I love being able to go outside for 5 minutes and not come back in sweaty and stinky (you need to take showers about 3times a day in the mid south otherwise you smell like liquid asshole)

    Best summer ever!

  32. It is not fun to have grey grey grey grey grey. I don’t care how hot or cold it is or how much it rains but this grey is just awful. That’s what’s bad about this year.

  34. Looking forward to the next such post, so I can see who is still defending the weather. Seattle residents are a touchy bunch.

  35. I love it! I love the rain, I love the cool weather. I love the clouds. Sun can be okay for a while, but by the end of September I really start missing the rain. Today was a nice chance to hear the rain hitting the alder leaves in my yard. It was free water for my plants. And the birds were enjoying it too.

    And if someone longs for 90 plus and raging humidity, go to the Midwest. You’ll also get tomatoes before Halloween. Yay for you.

  36. I love the weather here, because I spent the first 40 years of my life roasting in South Louisiana. I hate the weather here, because I can’t for the life of me get a vegetable garden going.

  37. I have to go to Raleigh, NC for a conference, then I’m traveling to Philly, Boston, and Omaha. I’m terrified that all my mildew will die.

  39. oh jesus fucking christ, so if you hate the weather here the response is “go to texas, go to scottsdale, go to louisana, it’s fucking miserable”. well, stranger geniuses, there are other places in the world that are sunny and nice year ’round where it rarely hits 85 degrees. flagstaff arizona. durango colorado. taos new mexico. to name a few. and no, i didn’t lose money on a condo in belltown…i’m way too smart to live in the city. i got acreage, motherfuckers.

    just admit it…you’re a bunch of fucking vampires. you love the rain. you love the clouds. you loathe the sun. basically, you love to be miserable. some of us long for the warmth of the sun, to look at the mountains with a clear blue sky.

  42. @40, have a good time in fucking FLAGSTAFF. Ugh. And the residents of Taos and Durango (blech) will be surprised to hear that it’s sunny and nice year-round, seeing as how they’re buried under three feet of snow with 10-degree temps all winter — SIX feet of snow in Durango. Where it will top 85 degrees TODAY, so many not so rare as all that, with ridiculous thunderstorms all the time. Yeah, terrific.

    Flagstaff is in the Failed State of Arizona, which is all that needs to be said there. People shouldn’t even be living there in numbers; it’s a fricking desert. Except for the ten feet of snow and the -30 record temps. Beautiful.

    I’ll take Seattle any old day. The very fact that it is unpopular with “taint” is as strong a selling point as any.

  43. yes fnarf, flagstaff is in arizona. very good, i see someone paid attention in school. i lived there for 8 years so, uh, maybe i know a bit more than you about it. it’s fucking amazing. surrounded by national forest land. 7000 feet in elevation. cool, clear skies and the smell of ponderosa pine trees wafting in the breeze. population under 60,000, water supplied by springs in the san francisco peaks and by lake mary (not from the colorado river like phoenix). low crime, even lower pollution. yes, it snows in the winter…sometimes A LOT. then the sun comes out and it’s beautiful. strap on the snowshoes or cross country skis and head out into the woods. 300 days of sun a year, by the way. this shithole called seattle is my home now, but i’m just doing my time here until the wife and i can move somewhere nicer. hopefully back to flagstaff, but there are certainly other options available. just somewhere that doesn’t kill my soul like this dreary, depressing place does. ugh indeed.

    i understand why you don’t like flagstaff. if you actually enjoy seattle it would be a drag…

  44. Cliff Mass: I have followed the weather around here for a long time and I can’t remember such sustained cool, cloudy weather during the middle to end of July (including what is going to occur).

    I agree with Cliff. In my 31 years here in Seattle, I can’t remember a summer like this or a spring like we just had. Oh well, hopefully we’ll have a nice August and September before plunging back into months and months of incessant rain.

  45. “It’s fucked up. Usually, summer starts 7/15 here. We’re OT.”

    Here in San Francisco summer usually starts about 3:15 PM and is over about 4:30 PM. The rest of the time we are fogged in.

  46. @40 I’m with you. The weather here sucks, but the people who defend it are worse. It’s like they’ve never seen the sun before, so they talk shit about it. Reminds me of the Ray Bradbury story “All Summer in a Day”.

    Of course, you really can’t move to Seattle and then complain about the rain. (Moving here and then regretting it is a different story.)

  47. Look people, Seattle does have good summers. This is not a good summer. I’m sorry that you really feel the need to defend this weather out of provincial pride, but the fact is this is a lousy Seattle summer. One of the reasons i moved here years ago was because all my summer experiences were great here. I was fine with 9 months of rain and overcast because the summer made it all worth it. And for many years, summer never let me down. But last summer and this summer suck. As far as sun and cloud cover goes, Seattle no longer has distinct seasons. It’s 12 months of gray. Fuck that. Stop being so god damn defensive about the shitty weather. People move here for the legendary summers, they endure three seasons of shit weather for those summers. The weather outside is a huge letdown, and only a provincial hick would defend it.

  48. Poor, bitchy Taint. You don’t understand it at all. If we like the weather and find it to be pleasant we aren’t miserable. We would hang around you for that.

  49. ooh, did i just get burned? not by the sun, mind you, but by an uber witty slog commentator. bravo, good sir or madam…bravo!

  50. This global warming stuff is KILLING me! I can’t seem to get the air conditioning to keep up with the massive heat wave we’re having.

    Isn’t the earth supposed to be the equivalent of a cake your wife left in the oven when she went to work by now? The Seattle Waterfront underwater from melting ice caps? No snow in the mountains in the winter?

    Paging Al Gore. Paging Al Gore. You got some explaining to do!

    (Seriously, when do you Climate Change, so called since the earth isn’t actually, you know, warming for over a decade now, Koolaid drinkers admit you’ve been had?)

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