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12 January 2006

Record consecutive days of rain I wasn't kidding about the rain. It really has been raining for 24 days straight.

post by: matildaben at: 11:42 | 20 comments

I thought you guys only counted days without rain.

posted by stilicho 12 January | 12:03

We got about 20 minutes of sunshine yesterday. It was a little weird.

posted by cmonkey 12 January | 12:03

I was running some errands in the car during lunch hour yesterday and I actually had to find out where the hell my sunglasses had gotten to. Fortunately by the time I got out of the store and headed back to work, it was raining again.

posted by matildaben 12 January | 12:10

Looks like you're gonna beat the record.

posted by Cryptical Envelopment 12 January | 13:03

No frickin' way. Do you have a boat outside?

posted by dabitch 12 January | 13:24

I would seriously lose it in that climate.

As a Coloradan, if I go 3 days without seeing the sun and bright, blue skies, I begin to entertain thoughts of suicide.

posted by teece 12 January | 13:36

I'm homesick, but not that homesick!
I'm sending warm, dry thoughts.

posted by safetyfork 12 January | 13:54

It's a drag to try to walk the dog in this sort of weather, but otherwise I dig it. It's one of the reasons I moved here in the first place.

posted by bmarkey 12 January | 14:44

It's no better down here in the P-town, but I stopped paying attention around ten years ago.

As for this "sun" you speak of, It burns us it does! We hates it!

posted by pieisexactlythree 12 January | 15:09

Moreover, I scored more prozac yesterday, so it's all good. w00t!

posted by pieisexactlythree 12 January | 15:10

Odd, glorious blue skies, bright sun and 55 degree weather here in the 'burgh. It's January 12. It should be doing that freezing rain/sleet/snow ugliness that the local channels just call "winter mix".

posted by octothorpe 12 January | 15:18

One of the local Seattle comedy shows a few years ago did an amusing sketch making fun of the local news shows. It was called "Sun Break '98" (or whatever the year was) and done in that overemphatic style that local news does when reporting on extreme weather phenomena.

For those who aren't from the Pacific NW, a "sun break" is when the sun comes out for a little while during a long gray/rainy season.

posted by matildaben 12 January | 15:26

Back in the day, about ten years ago, when I was an undergrad here in Portland, (Reed College) any sight of the sun resulted in the obligatory Sunny Day Keg. Everyone would imediately drop whatever they were doing and converge on the student union porch to drink.

posted by pieisexactlythree 12 January | 15:32

In other news, we're on our 1,643,589,890,674th day of having gravity. Why would you expect tomorrow to be any different?

posted by George_Spiggott 12 January | 15:35

In other news, we're on our 1,643,589,890,674th day of having gravity.

Time to stand up and fight!!!

"The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist."
- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

posted by pieisexactlythree 12 January | 15:42

We're on our 25th day of rain in the Lower Mainland (BC, about 150 miles north of Seattle). Our record is similar - 28 days set in 1953.

Where's Noah when you need him?

posted by deborah 12 January | 15:48

That's one good thing about playing in Seattle all those years," he said, "you get used to throwing a wet ball." Warning: wingnut blog

posted by danostuporstar 12 January | 16:06

It's currently 64 degrees in Vegas.

I'm weary of the sun, though, and hope to move to Seattle some time in the next 5 years.

posted by krix 12 January | 17:48

I was recently told that Seattleans ... ites ... don't need screens on their porches, because there's never enough standing water to breed mosquitoes.

posted by stilicho 12 January | 21:04

You've been lied to, sir. We do indeed get the skeeters.

posted by bmarkey 12 January | 21:07

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