After our first year of living here, I said the weather was one of my favorite things about Seattle. I did dislike the dark winter days, but felt that the rest of the year made up for it. The weather is generally fairly moderate - no major snowstorms and, more importantly, summer temps aren't too hot. I got so tired of the high temps in Texas that summer high temps averaging in the 70s felt great.

The first year we were here, the cool spring weather was refreshing and I didn't mind that early June temps stayed below 60 for almost a full week, though I was told that wasn't normal. After that first week of June, the summer was great.

However, that winter was the terrible winter storm that almost kept us here for Christmas and paralyzed the city. There was snow, snow, and more snow. I was also told that wasn't normal.

After that winter, I was happy that the next summer got comfortably warm earlier in the year. But then it got warmer and warmer, and set an all time record high of 103. However, there were only a couple unpleasantly warm weeks during that summer - same as the summer before - so we didn't have much problem getting by without air conditioning.

This past winter, was rainy, but we had the warmest January on record, and I appreciated the moderate weather.

But now, in early June, yet again, the summer weather hasn't shown up yet. Worse, it's been cloudy most of the time, including all of this weekend. We did have some nice sunshine on Friday, and I was fortunate to get off of work a little early to enjoy it. But last week I was on my way to work in 50º weather, with rain and heavy wind (and complete cloud cover). And seriously, look at the temperatures yesterday:



Not only did we have cool weather, but there was solid cloud cover all day, with some rain. People consider this to be unusual as well.

The summer, when it does show up, will be excellent I'm sure. The summers are awesome here - three of the best months anywhere. But, this atypical, unpleasant weather seems to be more typical than I had realized.

I do like the cooler weather, generally, but the worst part of the cool weather is the lack of sunshine. Maybe I'm just being too critical, at least it's not 100º.