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I 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. M
by e40 3y ago
I 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.