During winter solstice there's less than 8 hours of light sunrise to sunset but if it's thick outside it's more like 6 hours of light!!! I happen to love that time of the year- so cozy to sit by the fire with your best friend. The hard part of the year for me is February through July 15. We've survived November through January darkness and you're ready for spring, right? Although we can have some spectacular weather- especially for a week in May, but mostly it is just cold, gray and wet until July 15. I've watched numerous Independence Day fireworks in a down parka with extra blankets around the ladies. But July 16 through October there is no place on earth I'd rather be. It's just hard to choose between salmon fishing/crabbing/shrimping, skiing the high country, hiking/camping and oh yeah, cycling or cycle camping, the music venues and the amazing restaurants. The previous comments about density growth are true and driving a car here is horrible nowadays. Within a month we're moving to a nearby island to escape the urban sprawl yet enjoy the beautiful Northwest. At least it's sprawl and not decay.
On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 8:05:40 AM UTC-8, Garth wrote: > > > You can look up weather data and decide for yourself. While no statistic > can give a total account of the weather for everyone , it is what it is . > You can look up any hour, day, month and year by calendar/history , and > you can change the weather station and see it's history. > > > https://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KBFI/2016/3/8/MonthlyCalendar.html?req_city=Seattle&req_state=WA&reqdb.zip=98101&reqdb.magic=1&reqdb.wmo=99999#calendar > https://www.wunderground.com/us/wa/seattle/zmw:98101.1.99999 > > > > On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 9:56:11 AM UTC-5, dstein wrote: >> >> Thanks Shawn, that is what I'm looking for. The summers are so nice and >> tempting, I've been there several times in the summer ;). >> >> On the DC front, I've spent a lot of time there and have a pretty good >> idea what I'm in for. The winters there can be pretty brutal with several >> lost weekends, months even. However it ends in like March, whereas Seattle >> seems to last through June? >> >> I guess the whole issue with Seattle is I'm under the impression that the >> rainy weather lasts 9 months out of the year, whereas everywhere else it >> seems limited to 3-4 months for winter (with some serious thunderstorms and >> torrential downpours throughout scattered throughout the rest of the year). >> Is that the case? >> >> Thanks everyone for indulging me on this, this is seriously helpful as I >> need to start my argument on where to move now with my wife, let it simmer >> for a year or two, then make the jump! >> >> >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
