Is it Actually that Rainy in Seattle? 

And here we are April 11, 2023 and we haven't seen the sun since March lol. I always tell people that the overcast lasts for nine months from October to June. I don't know why people get this misconception that we start to get sun in April as a matter of fact there's a whole saying that goes "April showers bring May flowers" as well as the term "False Spring" ( False Spring being when you get that first day of sunshine in April and you think spring has finally arrived and then it turns around and does what it's doing now where we have had no sunshine for almost two weeks) lol. And while it might not physically rain a lot, it is *constantly* gray for those nine months with very seldom breaks of sunshine that is what is unbearable at times.

Every time i look at the weather radar for my state it is always rainy over there lol

It was kinda lonely during Milton in fort pierce, too rainyyyy

@@chenanigansOH APRIL 11 IS MAH BIRTHDAY

@@chenanigansi turned 15 that time. Turned 16 this time

Exactly! I've try to explain how wetness is not the same as rain. I usually go to the windshield standby, where you can't see because its covered in drops but it's not wet enough for the wipers to work they just bounce instead of swipe.

All true, though granted I've experienced legit moderate rainfall in Seattle, but only for short periods of under an hour. But I'll take Seattle's humidity over the humidity in the eastern and especially southeastern US. The darkness is what can get to a lot of people. Lots of cloudy or overcast days, low sun angle (as low as 19° midday), and about 2 months when the day length is under 9 hours.

Preach it! Always blustery and gloomy.

DAk3Blizzard As a Seattlleite, all that is 100% true.

The same is true of Portland. We get 3 or 4 months of dry, sunny weather... and the rest we get gloom and drizzle. It seldom gets cold enough to snow though. Just cool and damp and cloudy. If you're one of those people who needs sunshine, then Portland isn't the place for you (at least for well over half the year). On the plus side though, it stays green much longer. My roses bloom through October many years. I can get fresh herbs even later. I've never been one for bright, hot days. I like the overcast, so Portland is perfect for me. And vampires. Vampires like Portland too.

THESE ARE ALL LIES: IT RAINS ALL DAY EVERY DAY IN SEATTLE. IF YOU VALUE YOUR SANITY, OR LOVE SUN AT ALL DON'T MOVE THERE! ALL YOUR CLOTHES WILL GROW MOLD AND MOSS AND THE PEOPLE ARE RUDE!

Exactly - the 'rainy in Seattle' idea was an errant progression from the number of overcast days in Seattle which was linked to Seasonal Affective Disorder. Just how and when 'overcast' morphed into 'rainy' is not certain but it is definitely an indication of someone's intelligence, or lack thereof.

TRUTH! has nothing to do with actual precipitation... natives, and people who have lived there a long time know it's the grey skies, low hanging clouds and misty rain that make Seattle - Seattle... and it can be very depressing. Its all about lack of sun. However, the PNW is never more gorgeous than when experiencing a drought!

No, that's bullshit. The weather in May is usually excellent, and there are sunny days here and there in the period you mentioned. But it is true that the weather can be relentlessly and monotonously overcast for weeks at a time, and most days in western Washington are grey.

Calling people tools and basically telling them to eff off, yup that's a 'SEaTtle NaTiVe' for you lol. But what's so funny is they are also fake and passive-aggressive so they would never say this to your face, they only talk like this online or they think it but won't say it in person. Lol. They are overall pretentious, stuck up, elitist snobs about their city. While everything he said is accurate about the weather and environment, he's the poster child for the Seattle Freeze lol. He could have said all that without being a dick. But that's how they truly are inside. And when we say the freeze is real and y'all don't like transplants we get gaslighted and told we're not trying hard enough or we're making it up. Been here 5 years and I'm happy to leave buddy. Enjoy being a pretentious grump.

At least, in your area! I live in Western Washington and get huge rainstorms on the weekly, excluding summer.

@@catinglasses How? Aren't the Olympic Mountains in western Washington that would create a rain shadow effect like on the east?

We have earthquakes. You have Mt. Rainier. Earthquakes won't flood the city.

"Mt. Rainier is considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world, and it is on the Decade Volcano list." --Wikipedia.

Lol good one. Hello from Tacoma :D

Sadly, the rumors haven't been working... We'll have to start spreading a new one to scare the Californians away.

@@EthelredHardrede-nz8yv The Seattle area has historically had the largest earthquakes in the world actually. No one realizes it though because it only happens every 700 years on average, but the last one was about 700 years ago so.. The whole area will probably be destroyed by the 9+ quake and subsequent giant tsunami within the next 100 years or so.

A whistle-stop tour?

Can confirm, it's terrible here and we're full. Stay home.

Yup. Seattle is hell on Earth. It rains all the time, the scenery is hideous, and the income tax is much too high. Stay away, for your own sake.

I have to disagree. Seattle's rain is a national treasure, I love it, and the city is beautiful. But yes we are full don't visit us.

Chid MDXX: "... don't come." I guess ppl in Seattle like you don't like tourists. In 2017, "[w]hen indirect and induced impacts of this direct spending are calculated, tourism in Seattle generated an estimated $10.7 billion total economic impact." I think smug locals like you should be thanking tourists for coming instead of telling them not to come. What do you think the economic impact would be if the billions of tourist dollars dried up?

I spent about 9 so months over two stays over an almost a year span. Saw the leaves turn & fall, was there for the cold, which was pretty dreary, was there for the awesome budding & sprouting & the whole summer. I didn't see all that much rain. Was down in DuPont vs Seattle. Maybe part of my being unaffected by the rain is that I'm from South Florida where rains pours, pummels, pounds, floods, sometimes for weeks, not to mention the tropical storms & hurricanes. When compared, Seattle is dry, babe. Dreary & gray in the winter, yup. What's really sad is how much homelessness there is! I'm still traumatized by the number of people without a place that's humane to live. A tent is one thing, but twenty tents together where the fumes of the he interstate are poisoning the them. Yeah, raise your minimum wage, have your sales tax, & put more businesses out of businesses & cause whatever are left to refrain from hiring. Piss off Amazon. The homelessness will only get worse. Regulations & rules there are ridiculous. Whine about your rain & that are too many people & you don't like tourists. I'm glad I'm not there now. Not because of the weather, but because of the societal failure & creepiness of the whole area. Seattle is a glorified cesspool & the beautiful areas almost fake. And Dupont? It feels like Disneyworld & I'm waiting for a Stepford wife to... I'll take my 14 hour straight thunderstorms with rain the rest of the day & night. South Florida may not feel like home, & it has MORE rain than Seattle, but at least it doesn't feel like the Twilight Zone, thank you.

Seattle actually gets more sunny hours and days than a couple other large cities like Pittsburgh, Columbus and Buffalo, NY. Also not everyone feels the same way about the weather. Lots of people love the rain and hate hot sunny weather.

That's it. It's not the volume of water that falls from the sky, it's that it looks dark and depressing so much of the time.

Being from western NY man..we’re used to the grey..and frigid temperatures

That’s why it’s Suicide rate is so infamous. And yes, Kurt Cobain did take his own life.

I was there for that summer period and visited a friend that moved from the Midwest and she was all like "isn't it glorious? Mid 70s and low humidity? I don't miss the Midwest weather at all" And I replied "yeah, it's great. Funny, it feels exactly like the Midwest/east coast in late june-early July and definitely like our September and Octobers back home." I think she miffed by that comment. Like don't get me wrong it's lovely weather. But I'd rather live somewhere were that weather is like that year round and not just for 2-3 months.

The weather in May is also usually nice.

@Red Divinity Where's this coming From? Is it some kind of Reversed Speech video you listened to?

True. Simon needs to not get his s--t together. We want more outtakes!

Go check out Simon talking about Nicholas Cage. He starts laughing and it is great! It is titled: The Bizarre Spending Habits Of Nicholas Cage. (today I found out)

Lived there August 1997-June 2000. It rained 165 days the entire year of 1998.

Shorts? Don't you mean Utilikilts?

40* is good working weather outside, just a t-shirt and you're good.

greg outcalt You stole that last idea from former Governor McCall of Oregon. 🙃

In Seattle, I wore long sleeves and wool socks at least 10 months a year. Well - the long sleeves were year round. I wore jackets and sweaters constantly, parked on top of the forced air heat vents in my home at every opportunity and the bill for the heat was high except in August. The umbrella lived in the car because I wear fancy hats that don't like to be wet, but I never used it downtown because the constant icy gales up the urban canyons were difficult to manage. I never went barefoot in the decade I lived there. Occasionally - on sunny days between June and September - I'd pad out in my Crocs and slip them off to stand barefoot on the lawn for a while, just to ground myself. Then I'd go in and put my wool socks back on. My leather coats were my favorite ones - the suede duster with the hood was my go to... Leather cuts the wind. I was cold almost all the time.

Sounds like Victoria even less rain

I live near Seattle, and I get rain showers several times throughout the day on days when it rains.

They have the best summers I've ever experienced, warm, dry, no freakin bugs (compared to Minnesota, at least)...but the endless cloudy days in the winter months would be the end of me...

Simon is a very sweary man apparently.

I live here, believe me....rains all the time

That means there's a 50% chance it will rain all the time.

You love the cloudy days??? Are you out of your mind??????????????????

I lived in both cities for over 5 years, Houston rains heavier, Seattle rains more often.

Rustle The Musical Gorilla. That is a great way to put it

Ken Fulton {Baby Elder} yeah it rained like everyday last week

I've lived both places, it's always so cute when people here in Seattle go on about how hard it's raining. I'm just like, honey you don't even know. Still, there are a few days in the spring when it does properly drench, and I don't look forward to those. Otherwise though, it's not so bad. Kinda damp and often grey, but that's why I like it here. (Also, no fire ants. Seriously, fuck fire ants.)

sanityisrelative yes fire ants are horrible!!! 😂 I love Texas but I do not love those fuckers

But we have bears, cougars, earthquakes, volcanoes, and if you move here you'll be sure to get Seasonal Affective Disorder and be horribly depressed all of the time. So there's that. Plus, I'm pretty sure the sheer quantity of blackberries that grow wild here is probably very unhealthy for anybody not raised in these conditions.

Yes, those should be a regular feature.

That depends on the season. There was barely any rain last summer, which was unfortunate because it would have helped clear out the smoke. But I'm anticipating November's yearly month long deluge. We get a similar month of nearly straight rain around March or April and the rest is just drizzle or constant cloud cover. I would hardly call that even a light downpour most days. Though that might just be personal interpretation of how intense precipitation has to be to be called a downpour.

(well the cut at 2:10 is a bit weird)

The fact that forecasts routinely use "sun breaks" says it all.

Might have been me that said that LOLOL.

That's actually partially true, Samar. Phoenix does average more rain in July and August than any other month. (Seattle averages the least amount of rain in July and August.) That's when the North American monsoon occurs, as a thermal low develops around Arizona by July due to intense heating (it develops earlier further south in Mexico). The Gulf of California provides most of the moisture.

Right lmao