When I told people we were moving to Seattle I had lots of nice positive comments, and then the second comment was almost always "you know it rains all the time there, right?". I would nod my head and say "yes, I know". I really didn't think it would be a problem (I still don't), after all Spring and Fall are my favourite seasons and that's 10 months of the year in Seattle.
Then we arrived at the end of September and it was rainy, those first few days it didn't seem to stop. I had been expecting a constant drizzle and instead we had rainstorms. It turns out September had a record breaking amount of rain. The most rain in a September in the past 104 years in fact! So I went out and got myself all ready. I bought a cool polka dot umbrella, a nice new rain jacket and some sleek new rainboots (I figured if I'm going to be wearing them all the time, I want to have boots I like).
Only now it's the middle of October and there's no rain. Seriously. No.Rain. There have been some cloudy days, a slight drizzle at times (more of a mist really, like being at Niagara Falls). Overall though we have clear, sunny days with no rain at all. It's been quite lovely! The kids are enjoying the nice weather, we only need to grab a hoodie in the mornings on our way out the door. We have enjoyed walking to school in the crisp, fall weather. Gone to the playground after school. And had beautiful sunny days for our downtown Seattle adventures.
I just looked at the weather forecast for the week ahead, probability of precipitation varies from 20% down to 0% throughout the week. 0% chance of rain on most days!! While I'm certain I will get many chances to wear my new rainboots in the future, I'm happy to report it does NOT rain all the time in Seattle.
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