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Portland gets the same amount of rain as New York, but it hardly ever rains hard, and many people manage without even owning an umbrella. It doesn't get very c
by kscaldef 17y ago
Portland gets the same amount of rain as New York, but it hardly ever rains hard, and many people manage without even owning an umbrella. It doesn't get very cold in the winter, and there's typically only a week or two of 90+ weather (with low humidity) in the summer. Personally, I enjoy the seasonality far more than the uniform sunnyness of (parts of) California.
- mtrichardson 17y agoI made the mistake of buying an umbrella in Portland after living here for about a year. The sales clerk grinned slyly at me when I was checking out and said, "So, you're from out of town, eh?" You just don't really see that many umbrellas here (especially outside of downtown). [edit: basic grammar]
- davidw 17y ago> Portland gets the same amount of rain as New York, but it hardly ever rains hard, Yes, that's precisely the problem. Instead of a brief downpour, you get a week where it sprinkles on and off and it's cloudy the whole time.
- jasonkester 17y agoPortland rain is strange. It's never actually raining, but it has always just rained. I lived and worked downtown for several years, walking to work every day. In that whole time, I was actually rained on during that walk maybe a dozen times. I have no idea how this works, but it does. It can rain all day every day for a week, while somehow never actually raining on you. Northern England, on the other hand, goes out of its way to rain directly on you whenever you try to get out and do anything.