Anonymous
Post 07/31/2025 14:35     Subject: Pacific Northwest schools
Move on people.

OP asked about PNW schools and you have managed to create an inane discussion about the weather.
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2025 13:16     Subject: Pacific Northwest schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Seattle is quite depressing for most of the year.. the lack of sunshine and grey clouds and misty rains…


Seattle itself is not that bad (but shhhh...don't tell anyone)


it's not the 90's anymore. I personally would not choose to live in Seattle.
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2025 13:10     Subject: Pacific Northwest schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Seattle is quite depressing for most of the year.. the lack of sunshine and grey clouds and misty rains…


Everyone who’s ever lived in Seattle and is reading this is like, shhh, don’t say anything.

Personally I really like having flowers bloom starting in February, winters without snow, no ice storms, zero humidity in summer, no thunderstorms cancelling things in the spring, and no mosquitos.


True. Still college is a perfect time to try a different climate. No matter what happens, by 30 you can still be on DCUM with nothing better to critique than weather.
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2025 12:48     Subject: Pacific Northwest schools
Anonymous wrote:Seattle is quite depressing for most of the year.. the lack of sunshine and grey clouds and misty rains…


Everyone who’s ever lived in Seattle and is reading this is like, shhh, don’t say anything.

Personally I really like having flowers bloom starting in February, winters without snow, no ice storms, zero humidity in summer, no thunderstorms cancelling things in the spring, and no mosquitos.
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2025 12:27     Subject: Re:Pacific Northwest schools
Many cities have more rainy days than Seattle:

Syracuse, NY: 172 days
Buffalo, NY: 167 days
Rochester, NY: 162 days
Portland, OR: 164 days
Cleveland, OH: 155 days
Pittsburgh, PA: 151 days
Seattle, WA: 149 days

(DC and New York are around 120, while Boston is around 137)
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2025 11:32     Subject: Pacific Northwest schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Most of the populated parts of America are rainier than Seattle. Hell, it rains more in Dallas than Seattle. Seattle just has a lot more grey skies. If you’ve lived in New England, you can handle it.


More total rain falls in Dallas because when it rains it pours buckets. But then the clouds part and the sun comes out. The percentage of time it spends raining is MUCH, MUCH higher in Seattle.

I think most people would be perfectly fine in Seattle. You deal with much less weather concerns than the rest of the country.
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2025 10:57     Subject: Pacific Northwest schools
Anonymous wrote:Seattle is quite depressing for most of the year.. the lack of sunshine and grey clouds and misty rains…


Seattle itself is not that bad (but shhhh...don't tell anyone)
Anonymous
Post 07/31/2025 09:46     Subject: Pacific Northwest schools
Anonymous wrote:Most of the populated parts of America are rainier than Seattle. Hell, it rains more in Dallas than Seattle. Seattle just has a lot more grey skies. If you’ve lived in New England, you can handle it.


More total rain falls in Dallas because when it rains it pours buckets. But then the clouds part and the sun comes out. The percentage of time it spends raining is MUCH, MUCH higher in Seattle.
Anonymous
Post 07/30/2025 21:19     Subject: Pacific Northwest schools
Most of the populated parts of America are rainier than Seattle. Hell, it rains more in Dallas than Seattle. Seattle just has a lot more grey skies. If you’ve lived in New England, you can handle it.
Anonymous
Post 07/30/2025 21:16     Subject: Pacific Northwest schools
Anonymous wrote:Seattle is quite depressing for most of the year.. the lack of sunshine and grey clouds and misty rains…

Sounds gorgeous. Would prefer it to the mess we have here.
Anonymous
Post 07/30/2025 21:15     Subject: Pacific Northwest schools
Seattle is quite depressing for most of the year.. the lack of sunshine and grey clouds and misty rains…
Anonymous
Post 07/30/2025 12:51     Subject: Pacific Northwest schools
Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Western Washington. You visited the PNW in the summer, OP. Summers there are great. But where I grew up we have 250 days of rain per year. We had a rain guage in our town that measured more than six feet of rain per year, and nobody blinked an eye. Come May, the whole country is sunny -- except for western Washington and western Oregon. I was used to the weather, but my spouse, the native Californian, suffered from the short, dark, gray winter days when we were in grad school together. I haven't lived in the PNW for three decades, and even for me having been born and raised there, it would be a struggle to deal with the weather nine months of the year. I'm not used to that much rain anymore. So just be aware that you saw it at the high season.


That is NOT normal "western Washington". Seattle averages 40" per year. Even the Eastside closer to the mountains (think Issaquah) averages 60". So you can avoid that much rainfall by moving away from the farther out Eastside. Bellevue averages 35"

But get your self a "SAD light" or as I call it "happy light" and use it for 10-20 mins each morning with your coffee. It does wonders

Anonymous
Post 07/30/2025 10:45     Subject: Pacific Northwest schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We are doing a tour of Pacific Northwest schools and I keep thinking I missed out! Schools are beautiful, weather is great, food is delicious, and generally friendly campus visits. I wish I had left the East Coast for college.


weather isn't "great".

The weather in the Pacific Northwest is awesome. What are you bugging about?


Great summers. Rainy October through mid-spring.


half the summer is now lost due to smoke from bc wildfires getting socked in puget sound when there’s an inversion.
Anonymous
Post 07/30/2025 10:41     Subject: Pacific Northwest schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Go, Ducks!

It rains here and is gray for a long stretch from fall through early spring. Not much snow. Last winter wasn’t so bad but the magic of summertime is not matched weather-wise by the rest of the year!


Fellow Duck here ('97) and living in Old Town since 2005. The rain doesn't even start until November and is mostly gone by May. Dec- Feb produced a lot of snow the years I was there and Eugene is magical in a blanket of white. I get it isn't for everyone but the whole "PNW will make you eat a bullet" is total BS.

I'd kill someone for a Tempeh sandwich with carrot relish from New Day Bakery right now.


I lived in Eugene for the 1990s (all of it) and never once tried the hummus or Tempeh or anything hippie. Never went to the Oregon Country Fair, but got invited. I don't regret it. I don't like hummus. Had more than one person there ask me if I was a Republican because I took regular showers, styled my hair, and didn't slather on patchouli, lol. I was a student, and then a townie while my spouse finished grad school. The last time I visited Eugene, it felt so different. More high-end branding, more gentrification. Still miss that hole-in-the-wall Burrito Boy taqueria. They had great chicken tacos.
Anonymous
Post 07/30/2025 10:35     Subject: Pacific Northwest schools
I grew up in Western Washington. You visited the PNW in the summer, OP. Summers there are great. But where I grew up we have 250 days of rain per year. We had a rain guage in our town that measured more than six feet of rain per year, and nobody blinked an eye. Come May, the whole country is sunny -- except for western Washington and western Oregon. I was used to the weather, but my spouse, the native Californian, suffered from the short, dark, gray winter days when we were in grad school together. I haven't lived in the PNW for three decades, and even for me having been born and raised there, it would be a struggle to deal with the weather nine months of the year. I'm not used to that much rain anymore. So just be aware that you saw it at the high season.