More gloomy weather

Although the beauty of raindrops on these big leaves caught my eye this morning, I'm sorry to say that I'm really tired of all this rain. When I wrote this post last month, I thought the weather would soon begin to be more springlike. Actually, more summery was what I was looking for, and that just simply hasn't happened. I saw yesterday that SeaTac (the Seattle-Tacoma Airport) had a record amount of rain for the date, and it doesn't show any signs of getting better.

I just checked the Climate Prediction Center's outlook for the next month, and I found this depressing scenario:

From NOAA's Climate Prediction Center

What it shows for the Pacific Northwest is more of the same. We have already had more rain in mid-May than we usually get for the entire month. It wouldn't be so bad if we could have more than one day of sunshine between storm fronts, but that's all we have been getting. Smart Guy and I were all ready to go skydiving on Saturday when the beautiful blue skies of Friday disappeared. And then all day Sunday it rained. The Climate Prediction Center has even more good news:

Climate Prediction Center

Not only will it be wet, but it is predicted to be cooler than normal. My sister Norma Jean down there in Florida will be warmer than normal, but since she is close enough to the Gulf to get sea breezes, it doesn't even get nearly as hot as I've experienced in an Illinois summer. Some of my blogging friends have already seen temperatures in the 90s, but we still are waiting to see 70 degrees F (21 C). A few days when the sun was out we reached temperatures in the sixties, but only a few.

It's funny to think that I'm complaining (again) about the weather, because this is the one reason people couldn't understand why we decided to move to the Pacific Northwest, notoriously wet and gloomy, from Colorado. But if I had it to do all over again, I'd still move here. Even diehard Washingtonians are complaining these days, so I'm in really good company. The upside of the weather here is that in the summertime it rarely gets hot, and the temperatures in the winter are mild in comparison to what we experienced most of the winter in Boulder.

I will be writing about our mild temperatures in the summer while the rest of you will be sweltering; I'm giving you fair warning. We still plant our flowers and get outdoors. Our neighbors in the apartment complex have flowers beginning to sprout and bloom, and I get to see a beautiful view as I walk up the steps.

:-)