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Fix that whole rain thing and I'll be there tomorrow.

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Why fix what isn't broken? Some people enjoy the rain.

It's great, I totally don't have to water the garden most of the year. Thanks nature!

It doesn't actually rain here. We just tell people that to keep out Californians.

Yep. I have an internship there this summer, and I'll be moving from Calgary, which gets the most hours of sunlight of any city in Canada. Hope the change won't be too jarring/depressing... it was overcast every day when I was there for interviews.

Summers are why you live in Seattle. 80°F, sunny, and beautiful every day (after July 5th)! We get about 16 hours of sunlight on the summer solstice.

There are actually cases of people getting SAD from the over abundance of sunlight in the summer (http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2012/10/depression-from-too-mu...)

Moving from seattle to the bay area you basically get that for about 8/9 months on end.

The summer is the time for sun in Seattle. This entire summer was clear skies every single day.

http://www.seattleweatherblog.com/rain/record-dryness-windin...

This summer was awesome, but it was not typical. Summer 2010 was terrible. 60 degrees and cloudy/rainy throughout.

So far that makes 3 confirmed interns, it would appear microsoft has recruited half the comp sci department.

I used to live a few hundred kilometers away from Seattle in the same temperature area, I can say for sure I'm looking forward to this summer!

Nice, always great to run into someone else from the u of c. Happy so many people from our school made it. Did you interview?

Yup, interviewed on the 30th. It was a lot of fun, which you knew. Now I'm trying to convince all my friends to apply.

My buddy in 4th yr Software Engineering just got a fulltime job there.

Come on!.. it only took me 17 years to get used to the rain (Came from South America).

Better start packing up then! See this: http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2012/12/does-it-really-rain-al...

It doesn't rain all the time in Seattle, but it rains almost every day most of the year. When I lived in Seattle, I remember some months when the sky was gray 24/7. Crushing, relentless gray. It felt like living inside a concrete dome. :\

OTOH, grey skies make photography easier and better.

No it doesn't. Seattle has some of the best summers anywhere; it's one of the city's best-kept secrets. July and August are gorgeous.

The relentless gray of which you speak is true of months like December and January.

Exactly, the summer only lasts for July and August. November to February it rains non-stop, and every other month is hit or miss. You can't really plan any trips because those clouds come out of nowhere. And that was the worst part. I would wake up and the sun is shining. I decide to go ride some trails on my bike, half way to the location it starts to rain. Plans ruined.

Outside of winter (November -> March) the rain is really light and doesn't interfere with wandering around outside. But I'm a Seattlite =).

Yes, this. An old roommate of mine who was a Seattle-area native called it "spitting drizzle". It's like an agressive fog.

Those two months are the best summer you'll find anywhere. When I moved to SF, I missed them dearly. SF summers are terrible, and I found three of them more depressing than seven rainy winters in Seattle ever were.

I'll also take nonstop rain from Nov-Feb any day over the snowy winters in the Midwestern states where I grew up.

Finally, the key to not letting your plans get ruined by rain is to always plan for the possibility of rain. =)

Yes, Seattle summers are beautiful. 10 months of rain makes for a very green summer. :)

cpeterso is likely a member of Lesser Seattle. Started by curmudgeon Emmett Watson as a way to discourage Californians from moving to Seattle.

When I travel, I always emphasize the rain, the cloud cover, the risk of death by volcano, the very real likelihood very overdue The Big One earthquake, how traffic sucks, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Watson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_Seattle

Whatever you do, don't tell them about the statue of Lenin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Lenin,_Seattle

No, we used to have a concrete dome, and it didn't actually feel the same. It was much nicer inside the actual dome.

Good point! And I remember when they blew it up. :)

The problem with Seattle isn't as much the rain, as it is the cloud cover and lack of sunlight in Seattle. In the wintertime, those two combine for a fairly negative effect.

That said, sometimes it does rain a lot in Seattle. Some years ago there was a stretch of 35 consecutive days of rain.

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