Portland 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

Portland 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.