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June 4, 2008 at 4:05 am #587113
beachdrivegirlParticipantI am sorry! I did not grow up in Seattle and I can “deal” with our weather 90% of the time, but seriously I feel like it is freakin’ October!!! I understand you all cant change it just had to vent.
June 4, 2008 at 4:07 am #626150
AnonymousInactiveBDG – Thank you for that! I keep asking, “When is summer?!?”
I’m not complaining! I love what all this rain produces – I just look at all our flowers and am grateful!
But, when exactly is it summer here?
June 4, 2008 at 4:10 am #626151
ErikParticipantIt usually starts on July 5th
June 4, 2008 at 4:10 am #626152
TrickParticipantNR, it always begins July 5th.
But c’mon..normally we get above 65 on occasion, Ughhhhhh
I’ve been so unmotivated lately.
My webbed feet are growing back again.
June 4, 2008 at 4:14 am #626153
addParticipantI think summer usually starts on July 12th.
June 4, 2008 at 4:18 am #626154
GenHillOneParticipantI’m a native and toyed with posting the same rant when I turned on my SPACEHEATER earlier…WTH?
June 4, 2008 at 4:20 am #626155
inactiveMemberI’m a native – and summer starts July 28. My birthday.
June 4, 2008 at 4:26 am #626156
elgregoMemberI moved here from Florida, so I’m relishing the cool weather. I love me some sunlight (especially when it isn’t accompanied by make-you-stupid humidity) but I spent four years in that semi-tropical hellhole. Jacket weather and clouds are fine by me for a little while longer.
June 4, 2008 at 5:49 am #626157
JanSParticipantwhile I actually enjoyed the rain today, it felt so refreshing…it’s frickin’ 51 degrees out there…yeah, this has been some winter/spring…
Gen Hill One…I turned on my spaceheater last evening…and that’s totally unlike me. It says maybe some sun between showers on Saturday? seeing is believing :)
June 4, 2008 at 1:36 pm #626158
KatherineLParticipantA friend called last night and said he’d seen a few flakes of slushy snow among the rain when he was out. After forty-plus years living here, I don’t expect to see the sun until mid-June. But snow? That takes me aback.
June 4, 2008 at 2:53 pm #626159
hopeyParticipantJune 4, 2008 at 2:54 pm #626160
BernickiMemberAnother native here. June is normally like this, only a few degrees warmer. I usually give July 15 as the date for summer weather you can actually count on–no cold or rain after that. We’ve had more cloudy July 4ths than I’d like to think about.
June 4, 2008 at 3:01 pm #626161
beachdrivegirlParticipantWell I will be like a child waiting for Christmas marking down my calendar for July…
June 4, 2008 at 4:05 pm #626162
charlabobParticipant10 more rainy days (according to unnamed prognosticators) :-(
June 4, 2008 at 4:18 pm #626163
flowerpetalMemberThis feels just like June to me; which is what May, April, March and some Februarys are like. SeaFair week is historically the warmest and driest week of the year. It might be safer BDG to count down for that week. Why someone hasn’t developed an advent calendar leading up to SeaFair is beyond me; not so much for SeaFair itself but just because it usually means a good week of weather in Seattle.
June 4, 2008 at 4:58 pm #626164
WSMomParticipantI gave New Res a heads up when we met at the Handbags for Hunger…that we would have a few days of amazing sunshine toward the end of May then we’d go back to rain rain rain through the month of June and then maybe the sun will come back out July 5.
One Labor Day weekend before my son was heading to kindergarten we were having breakfast when my son wistfully remarked “when summer gets here mom, it’s going to be so hot”. It broke my heart to have to tell him that actually, summer just happened and school was about to start. That was 1999, the summer that wasn’t. Let’s hope 2008 is bright and shiny.
June 4, 2008 at 5:11 pm #626165
WSBKeymasterLOL on the Advent calendar, flowerpetal. FYI if it makes anyone feel better – I am in Minneapolis today for the first-ever conference of people who run hyperlocal news/info sites … and the weather isn’t any better. Gray and chilly. (But the transit is better! Got from the airport to the university for $1.50 via light rail and bus.) Patrick is out and about as primary WSB reporter du jour so we aren’t expecting a coverage interruption … TR
June 4, 2008 at 5:21 pm #626166
SueParticipantLast night I actually had to turn the heat on and pulled out the flannel nightgown again. And was wishing I hadn’t taken the flannel sheets off the bed 2 weeks ago. This is insane!
June 4, 2008 at 6:38 pm #626167
flowerpetalMemberI remember the first year I was in Seattle, I was teaching school and it was early June, about this time of year. During the day, the sun came out and it was a glorious afternoon as I was walking kids out to the school bus. One little girl began to cry quietly and when I asked her what was going on; she looked up at me shielding her eyes, and said “I hate the sun” it hurts my eyes!
Poor Seattle child thought I.
June 4, 2008 at 11:45 pm #626168
AlkiMacParticipantJune in Seattle is called “JUNUARY.”
June 4, 2008 at 11:52 pm #626169
herongrrrlParticipantI hate to say it…but it’s not unheard of for the whole summer to be cool and wet here sometimes. Yeah, usually it is cool (but not THIS cool!) and cloudy in June and right after July 4 it heats up and dries up, but that doesn’t always happen. I remember a few long, cold, wet summers in my childhood. And my dad, a not-quite-70 year old native, told me last month he has a feeling we’re setting up for one of those this year.
I really hope he’s wrong, though! Normally by June I have turned off the heater for the summer/fall and retired my goosedown comforter and flannel jammies, but not this year. My garden and I are tired of it!
June 5, 2008 at 12:03 am #626170
austinMemberThe town I grew up in is in the middle 90s all week and will only get hotter. I’m a sucker for a sunny day but cool, damp weather will always have my attention.
I turned off my heater the weekend of the cheese festival (the weekend it was Warm) and so it remains. If it gets chilly in the house, on go the wool socks and the kitties get a bit friendlier.
June 5, 2008 at 1:48 am #626171
seattlesueMemberHang in there! June is usually pretty swampy, but July and August are unforgettable. NW summers can’t be matched anywhere. And this is coming from a Native Californian :)
June 5, 2008 at 2:15 am #626172
ellenaterMemberYa my coffee consumption is way up…BUT, I’M GOING TO NEW MEXICO IN TWO WEEKS. It’s currently 77 there. I’ll try to bring back some sunshine.
June 5, 2008 at 2:41 am #626173
barmargiaMemberThis weather is fine, maybe everyone wants to have the hot weather and tornadoes that the Midwest have instead.
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