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And way more intermittent than solar. Seems like a really dumb idea.
by slashdev 3y ago
And way more intermittent than solar. Seems like a really dumb idea.
- jurassicfoxy 3y agoNot in the PNW! > A tourist arrives in Vancouver on a rainy day. He gets up the next morning and it's still raining. In fact, it's still raining three days later. He goes out to supper and spies a young kid. Out of despair, he asks, "Hey kid, does it ever stop raining around here?!" The kid says, "How should I know, mister? I'm only six."
- taeric 3y agoFunny, but also very inaccurate for large parts of the PNW? Maybe it is always raining in Vancouver, but summer is remarkably dry in large parts of the area. Edit: Granted, the time of the year that solar is likely too spotty, we do have rain.
- kzrdude 3y agoThis same kid also walks around in Bergen, Norway
- Tagbert 3y agoAn amusing joke, but while rain is frequent in the winter in the PNW (Pacific Northwest USA) the rain is often light. Seattle residents tend not to use umbrellas unless the rain is particularly heavy. It might not be a very good power source.
- civilitty 3y agoAll it took was a year and a half in Bellevue and I've never needed protection from the rain ever since. Now that I'm back in California I get a lot of weird looks in the office when I go out into the rain on purpose. It's a lot easier to appreciate the rain here when it's not raining nonstop for nine months.
- milsorgen 3y agoI get the same puzzled bemusement here in Idaho. Originally from the Oregon Coast I now relish a good rain and love a long walk through it.
- gottorf 3y agoCome spend some time in the Gulf Coast! Rain here actually physically hurts, sometimes. Big droplets (though probably not as big as the ones in the Alaskan Panhandle[0]), falling at a very rapid pace, looks and feels like a curtain of water. It's not unusual to have an inch an hour. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchikan,_Alaska#/media/File:Ketchikan_Alaska_Rain_Gauge.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchikan,_Alaska#/media/File:...
- e40 3y agoI was visiting a friend in the PNW and we went for a walk. Shortly after we started, the drizzle started. Honestly, it felt great, the drizzle on the face. My clothes didn't really seem to be getting wet, either, that's how slight it was. Then, he mentioned "the rain" and I looked at him. Dude, you think this is rain? He said, yeah, it rains harder, but they consider this rain. I questioned him a bunch and it seems much of the time the rain was at drizzle level. Now, this was in the 90s. I don't know if the rain is harder now, due to, you know, the changin' weather.
- taeric 3y agoI think this is still very accurate. I tell folks from the south that ask if it rains a lot here, that they likely wouldn't call what we get rain. It definitely looks wet all the time in the winter. As if it always recently rained.
- kzrdude 3y agoA drizzle is pleasant when it's warm but part of grim and cold weather when the temperature dips down (below 15-10°C?)
- taeric 3y agoThe other fun thing of the PNW is that it really doesn't get too cold that often. :D
- gottorf 3y agoAverage daily high stays under 15ºC (~60ºF) from about November to April. Definitely cold enough that being damp is unpleasant, especially with any kind of breeze.
- taeric 3y agoDepends on the rain. We don't have the cold rain I was used to from the south. Such that I'm perfectly fine biking in all year and basically all weather. So you aren't wrong that it can certainly be unpleasant. But it isn't as bad as rain from where I grew up. By a long shot.
- grecy 3y agoAs a fun data point, the capital of Sierra Leone gets more rainfall in a single month than the PNW gets in an entire year. I was there in the rainy season, it rained harder than I ever imagined possible for ten hours a day, every day.
- Brusco_RF 3y agoYou sent me down a rabbit hole. Holy crap! The AVERAGE rainfall in Sierra Leone in August is over 600mm... 23 inches!
- gottorf 3y agoAccording to Wikipedia, the average August rainfall in the capital, Freetown, is over a meter (~42")[0]. Tropical wet-and-dry climates, they're wild! [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown#Climate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown#Climate
- Brusco_RF 3y agoFreetown gets more rain in one August week than my town (Scottsdale) gets in a full YEAR
- grecy 3y agoIt was seriously, seriously impressive to live in that environment. I wound up finding mould on my clothes, on my fridge, inside my Jeep, etc. etc. It was extremely hard, so after a month I drove north into Mali where the rainy season was basically over :) I saw rain staggeringly heavy more times than I can count on the West Coast of Africa - it was truly incredible. Now that I think about it, I'm not sure I ever got it on film.
- slashdev 3y agoI lived in Vancouver for a number of years. I sure don’t miss the winter. Otherwise it’s a lovely part of the world. But the clouds and the rain really got to me.
- klyrs 3y agoThis was true 20 years ago. Nowadays, we joke about Juneuary and this year we had Maygust. Our summers are hotter and longer, winters bringing weeks of freezing and snow where I grew up expecting a single day of snow. The calm weeks-long drizzles of my childhood are gone, replaced with days-long "atmospheric rivers" called "monsoon" in warmer climes.
- gottorf 3y agoIs Juneuary June in January or the other way around?
- klyrs 3y agoJune in January, and August in May. As a kid, we wouldn't expect to even see the sun until late May.
- willsmith72 3y agonoooo i'm sure it's the opposite here. January in June. (very accurate in 2023)
- CrzyLngPwd 3y agoSeattle rain festival; January 1st to December 31st.
- zardo 3y ago100% it's always raining here it's especially bad in the summer.
- skrause 3y agoSeattle has 156 rainy days per year, Vancouver has 168. Honestly doesn't sound like that much to me. >150 is typical for most cities here in Germany. Munic has 193 rainy days per year. So it just seems like the people living in the PNW are exaggerating a bit.
- mjhay 3y agoSeattle actually gets less rainfall per year than any major city east of the Mississippi. It's just overcast and misty/drizzly a lot in the winter. Summers are bone dry.
- specialist 3y agoYes and: Foggy. When I was a kid, typical day was foggy til noon.