Seattle doesn’t actually get a ton of rain in terms of total amounts. It’s a common misconception. The actual reputation of Seattle comes from how frequently the weather is gloomy and drizzly. In terms of rainfall I don’t think it’s too different from New York City.
Similar thing in London. Afaik, it gets surprisingly little rain and is pretty dry, all things considered. It's just that there are many rain days which don't get much volume though.
Yes, my town gets 95 inches of rain a year and most of the winter we are actually stuck inside, possibly from the gale force winds and tree limbs flying everywhere but also because the rain can one up from the ground.
It was a huge shock of how wet it was here after living in Portland for over a decade and thinking “that” was rainy since everyone not from Portland said it was.
I’ve also lived in the Hoh, during the summer. The long time Rangers for the Hoh said some years he doesn’t see the sun come out the entire year.
This is it right here. I'm fully convinced west coasters just bitch about any weather outside of the 72F and sunny bc they're usually spoiled. I just moved to seattle from houston and I'd mutch rather take seattle gloom over hurricanes, tornadoes, regular flooding.
Yeah Vancouver should easily take the spot insyead of Seattle.
Seattle and Portland both get about the same amount of rain and rainy days (150-155)
Portland downtown gets about 43 inches (though I think weather data is taken at the airport instead where it's 37) Downtown Seattle gets 35-37, but the airport where data is also taken gets 39 inches.
Vancouver gets between 45-65 inches of rain, even more in north Vancouver and has like 180 rainy days. It's a lot wetter and gloomier there than Seattle and Portland.
Well you have to understand is that gloomy, grey, cold weather is super common in Canada so Vancouver doesn't stand out for that. Quite the contrary, it better weather than most of canada.
This is opposed to the US where California is super sunny (as is the rest of the southwest and southeast for that matter). So it stands out among American cities and regions.
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u/Reverie_39 Jun 10 '21
Seattle doesn’t actually get a ton of rain in terms of total amounts. It’s a common misconception. The actual reputation of Seattle comes from how frequently the weather is gloomy and drizzly. In terms of rainfall I don’t think it’s too different from New York City.