Yeah.
No tomatoes yet.
64/overcast.

There's been some kvetching locally, but I'm a happy Bellinghamster. Searing hot sunny days aren't my thing.

/suck it, rest of America.

LordZorch: On the other hand, the grass is nice an green....

Where the hell do YOU live? My grass in Tacoma is brown and dead until fall.

That said, I am SO loving my non-summers here after growing up in the steamy, the-humidity-will-farking-kill-you Southeast.

/Farking Vietnamese landscaper plated the wrong grass
//Too lazy to overseed

I've been to Seattle. Never could get any sleep there.

Too expensive. Liked what I saw of the place.

Seattle Summer (new window)

Winter is Coming

I miss Seattle so goddamn much. I hate summer too.

/WY has the rain as of late, but combined with 80+ temps and it just makes things muggy

Sad? SAD? It takes me about 20 seconds to walk from my air-conditioned, 72 degree living room and out to my car. By the time I get there I have a sticky slushy film coating my back and the backs of my knees. God damn Florida swamp summers. It's like Viet-goddamn-Nam. So yeah, I'd gladly take 2 summers off.

AbbeySomeone: Yeah. No tomatoes yet.

Abbey: grow Stupice, a cold-tolerant hybrid that will give you 2" to 3" tomatoes (much like the hot house tomatoes that Costco sells locally). I won't claim I'm flush with tomatoes but already have 3-4 that are ripe -- and I live by the shore in Mukilteo.

Also recommended: use a patio pot. The cement (and a southwest face) keeps the plants warmer.

Don't tempt me

Seattle sounds like a very cool place to live. Two things are holding me back: the weather (ironic, that, as I'm in 'Cuse) and the need to set foot on the tip of the Cape at least once a year.

Dired: Nonsense. We had like two sunny days last week. And besides, the soothing gray skies help people chill out and not be so irritable.

Yeah, but the smug just doesn't wear off. BTW, WTF is with you knuckleheads and the expensive sunglasses?

It's been 100+ almost daily for several weeks in Kansas. Seattle can have some of our summer.

I have been giving serious thought to moving to the far north. Not so far that it's always cold, but far enough that summers don't get past 80 ever.

It just better not rain again this year for Seafair. Last year was first time in 15 years, and its looking like it could happen again this year.

We get a summer. We just don't get burned to a crisp. If you want that, you can go south.

No, do not come to Seattle. Stay where you are. It rains here all the time. You'd hate it.

/ Subby is now on the list.

Teen Wolf Blitzer: Sad? SAD? It takes me about 20 seconds to walk from my air-conditioned, 72 degree living room and out to my car. By the time I get there I have a sticky slushy film coating my back and the backs of my knees. God damn Florida swamp summers. It's like Viet-goddamn-Nam. So yeah, I'd gladly take 2 summers off.

THIS is why I moved to Portland after living in the mid-Atlantic and mid-South for almost 20 years. EBOD weather East of the Rockies. Running from one air conditioned building/car to another is no way to live your life.

We haven't seen 90 degrees yet this year the humidity may be higher than I would like but it's not hot enough to bother you.

Actually, it rains ALL THE TIME, you would hate it here.

The My Little Pony Killer: We get a summer. We just don't get burned to a crisp. If you want that, you can go south.

Uh, Seafair has been going on for weeks already. It does every year. No rain for 3 weeks or more in Seattle is just flat out impossible.

Dangit, hit the wrong quote button Cuyose.

oh for god's sake, grow a pair. i live in st. louis, heat index was 110 today, will be 115 by thursday. still gonna make my disc golf league game that day.

charge your a/c and take a shower afterwards you pussies.

/will happily trade st. louis heat for pacNW constant rain and ball-busting cold come jan.

rohar: The My Little Pony Killer: We get a summer. We just don't get burned to a crisp. If you want that, you can go south.

Uh, Seafair has been going on for weeks already. It does every year. No rain for 3 weeks or more in Seattle is just flat out impossible.

That's good to know about that Seafair thing. Don't know why you think I'd care, but okay. If you don't like rain, there are better places to live.

rohar: Dangit, hit the wrong quote button Cuyose.

This makes much more sense. Ignore my previous response then.

By my count, Seattle has had exactly one day this year that reached 80 degress.

I'm not complaining. :D

and 11 seconds before my post, one of the nancies shows themselves. ^^^

The My Little Pony Killer: rohar: The My Little Pony Killer: We get a summer. We just don't get burned to a crisp. If you want that, you can go south.

Uh, Seafair has been going on for weeks already. It does every year. No rain for 3 weeks or more in Seattle is just flat out impossible.

That's good to know about that Seafair thing. Don't know why you think I'd care, but okay. If you don't like rain, there are better places to live.

As I said, I hit the wrong quote button. I'll be over next week though, gotta do my part to help the economy twice a month every month.

rohar: Dangit, hit the wrong quote button Cuyose.
ha, I kinda figured that. Let me re-iterate, last year was the first time in 15 yrs it rained on Seafair weekend(Hydroplanes and Blue-Angels)

mfsteve: Too expensive. Liked what I saw of the place.

This.

My wife and I went out there a couple years ago for 5 days, and fell in love with the city and its surrounding area. We considered relocating. It came down mostly to $$$$.

Caliente!

Cuyose: rohar: Dangit, hit the wrong quote button Cuyose.
ha, I kinda figured that. Let me re-iterate, last year was the first time in 15 yrs it rained on Seafair weekend(Hydroplanes and Blue-Angels)

Ah, I was over there for the whole Pirates hitting Alkai beach thing last year. Hot as hell and the tide came in way too fast.

/69f here and we've got real mountains

i really dont mind the 90+ degree days weve been having, but its the nights that im hating. 75ish at night does not make for good sleeping weather..

Clete Orris: mfsteve: Too expensive. Liked what I saw of the place.

This.

My wife and I went out there a couple years ago for 5 days, and fell in love with the city and its surrounding area. We considered relocating. It came down mostly to $$$$.

I made $60k in Dallas, $120k in Factoria. Strangely, I could afford the real estate adjustment.

/YRMV

Omnivorous: AbbeySomeone: Yeah. No tomatoes yet.

Abbey: grow Stupice, a cold-tolerant hybrid that will give you 2" to 3" tomatoes (much like the hot house tomatoes that Costco sells locally). I won't claim I'm flush with tomatoes but already have 3-4 that are ripe -- and I live by the shore in Mukilteo.

Also recommended: use a patio pot. The cement (and a southwest face) keeps the plants warmer.

Thanks for the tip. I have Black Russian and Roma(in pots) and they are only now flowering.

another-farker: i really dont mind the 90+ degree days weve been having, but its the nights that im hating. 75ish at night does not make for good sleeping weather..

Crank that A/C down, man. When I go to bed mine is never above 70.

Wireless Joe: i7.photobucket.com

New Orleans and Miami are cooler than St. Louis. Yep, it's one of those summers.

Heat doesn't bother me. However, the sun does. I hate being burnt.

That aside, my father is in Seattle, right now, and told me it was 60 degrees out. I didn't believe him until I checked via the Internet. fark, that's cold!!!

Just checked, 62.1 degrees right now in the backyard , 10-15 mph breeze and just started drizzling, this is about the norm this "summer"

I like a little bit of heat in my summers. This summer has been a bit excessive, but the last two summers in NW Arkansas have been very mild and pleasant. This year we've had more 100+ degree days in June than in all of the last 2 summers, I'd guess.

Gray, cool, with a light mist is not my idea of any season.

Teen Wolf Blitzer: another-farker: i really dont mind the 90+ degree days weve been having, but its the nights that im hating. 75ish at night does not make for good sleeping weather..

Crank that A/C down, man. When I go to bed mine is never above 70.

i should have mentioned that... there is no A/C in this house. closest thing ive got to ac is either the basement, or a box fan in my window.