Slightly Cloudy With A Chance Of More Cloudy Later In The Day

The ability to endure month after month of days like today is an unappreciated phenomenon unique to this corner of America.

Elsewhere winter storms may be harsher in the traditional frozen pipes/paralyzed infrastructure sense, but the psychological toll of Steve Pool’s constant grey "with a chance of light rain" is just grueling. Long-time Seattle residents are not unlike seasoned veterans of a lifelong Chinese Water Torture and Seattlest appreciates the local grit required to stomach the inclement march to summer.

While Seattle may be associated with constant rain, we aren’t even close to leading the nation in rainfall; Houston, Charlotte and Memphis each blow our annual precipitation out of the water. Dry-ass Utah leads the nation in per capita depression cases, so just imagine the collective mental health disaster folks in Utah would face if they were forced to endure the seven odd months of slow wetness that is Seattle.

Pat yourself on the back Seattle, the rainy season is over halfway done, most of us are still holding it together and the white escape of the mountains is just a quick drive East.

Photograph courtesy of Seattle Rainscreen