Does anybody remember summer?
 

I can't take it anymore, I still have flannel sheets on the beds, my winter clothes are still in use and my skin is almost gray from lack of sun...no wonder Seattle has a high suicide rate, I'd jump off the space needle if the weather was always like this. When is summer coming? Help, I can't take it any longer....

And oh, yeah, all the flowers I managed to plant between 2:00 and 4:00 pm several weeks ago when it stopped raining for a couple of hours are now dead from drowning, aarrrgghhhhh!!!!

Sunny and warm in Ohio today. I'll send it your way...

Nina, if it makes you feel better the Golden Gate Bridge is a more popular spot to jump off :) Check SouthWest website, you can take cheap flights too... San Diego? Phenix? LA area?

I'm sorry Nina. Its been summer here in the Southeast since the first week in March. Are you new to Seattle? If so, didn't you know the weather was going to be depressing? I love Seattle, but I could NEVER live there.

I hope things clear and cheer up for you.

Well, don't come to San Diego right now. We're deep into "June Gloom" and we can't handle not seeing the sun for more than a day at a time.

i think nina is on the east coast. it hasn't stopped raining for more than a day at a time in like 2 months. it's terrible. today is gorgeous in NYC. But---it's supposed to rain tomorrow. I grew up in CA and I really can't take this anymore.

I've been lathering on the 30+ plus for a few weeks now...

Barb, Just returned from your beautiful city. Yes. We were one of those RnR Marthon tourists that clogged up I-5 and the side streets.
Nice to be back in NoCal so we can see the sun again!

But, we'll def be back. Forgot how much we enjoyed that city.
I even got to sit on my fave park bench that was voted "best place to sit and eat a bag lunch" (or something like that) by San Diego Mag...Cabrillo Natl Mon's park benches.
GORGEOUS!
Kal

No luck here in SoCal. Thick June gloom overcast, drizzling, even sprinkling near the beach. Turned on the tv just in time to hear the weatherwoman say to expect this through next Wednesday.

Well, at least we will get some partial afternoon clearing each day before the haze rolls in again, and the temps are mild, but I am badly missing a nice, bright, dry, high-UV morning!

Wait, wait, wait. I'm confused. I'm in Seattle and it was 88 yesterday. It's supposed to be in the 90's today.

*checking nina's post to make sure it's dated 2003*

I kinda like June Gloom for bringing a bit of variety into our southern CA weather. But yeah, I would personally appreciate a LITTLE sun at some point while I'm up here in Santa Monica working. My hometown is on a south-facing piece of coast, and the overcast burns off (usually) by 11-- while it may never burn off up here. Dammit.

Summer has settled in for the Southeast, yeah-- is it crazy-humid like it usually is in summer? I'm gonna be there in four weeks, I want to make sure I'm prepared for feeling like a steamed asparagus....

I moved to Seattle 18 months ago from San Diego and LOVE it here. We've had absolutely beautiful weather lately (93 today?) and the beautiful mountains still take my breath away.

I honestly don't mind the rain, but ask me again if we have an unseasonably "wet" season. So far, it's been very nice.

I don't miss brown San Diego at all -- except for maybe a Roberto's carne asada burrito.

Beautiful and sunny in NYC..although the bees like it too much also!

oh nina you poor cold thing! I'm just almost too depressed sitting here in Seattle where it has been hot and sunny for a week now to post back to you! ;)

Maybe you should come for a visit! haha!

:)>- Wendy

And I honestly couldn't imagine living anywhere where it was hot with blazing sun all the time. It's been 90 here in the Seattle area for the past few days and I've been miserable. I do not like to sweat and I don't like the sun blazing down on me. Clouds are my friends.

To each their own, eh? :)

Sunny and warm in San Jose. We haven't even been sleeping with blankets.

Summertime and the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin', and cotton is high.
Oh your daddy's rich, and your ma is good lookin'
So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.

One of these mornin's you're goin' to rise up singin',
Then you'll spread you're wings an you'll take the sky.
But till that mornin, there's a-nothin' can harm you
With Daddy and Mammy standin' by.

Friggin' hot in SC!!

Seattle is in the 80's. Glorious sunshine, minimal air pollution, NO mosquitoes, no humidity . . . ahhhhh.

Nothing like a Seattle summer.

Here in Northwest Montana we are not far from Seattle and the weather is just great. Yesterday 72 degrees and sun ---today 75degrees and sun

Seattle sounds like New England. Just a different coast. We've been below normal temps and very little sunshine so far this spring. Can't wait for summer either - it won't be long.

nina, why so depressed? I've noticed your scream for help, just what is it you wanna do? Can we help? Is your family driving you nuts? We're here.

NH finally has some sun today. Yeah! I can't wait til it's in the 90's...bring on the heat! It has been positively dismal since late October.

This Nina is not from Seatte. She is from the East Coast, Mass. I think. I was thinking the same thing today those poor people in Seattle how do they stand all this rain??? I am so sick of it and I am in major "sun withdrawal." One day of sun, 4 days of rain. When will it ever end?? My flowers have major root rot. I doubt they will make it.

I don't think Nina is from Seattle but she doesn't say where she is. Well, I am in Chicago and it has also been pretty depressing. It has been very cold for weeks. Yesterday it was 80 in the burbs - this morning it was sunny but not it is cold and rainy.

Sunny and hot in FL: weeks and weeks of sunny and hot, but I've just come from my Dr with a Dx of pneumonia. Figure that out. :( Can I come to rainy New England? Maybe the moist air will help!

PS...Nina is in CT

Colorado is not so great right now either. We have had a wet and cool spring that included a foot of snow on May 10th that broke half the branches on our trees. Tomorrow it is supposed to be a high of 48 degrees with possible snow. I miss the drought.

Praying the rain will stop so we can get out in the garden and get those yukon golds harvested. I see the ark coming, so time to get on board.

I'm enjoying today emmensely, but it is the exception to the season so far, here on Long Island. We have had rain, rain, and more rain, and the temp. hasn't gotten above 70 except for a handful of days, today being one of them. I can't believe I'm still using flannel sheets! I guess I should be glad I'm saving on those electric bills. No air conditioning needed, that's for sure! I'll settle for sun, with or without the beach weather!

Oooooh Brooklyn Bomber, my FAVORITE song~ sigh~

Here in New York City, it's been what seems like months (!) since we've seen the sun! Ahhhh.... but today is gorgeous!! FINALLY!!! If it would only last more than a day, it would be great. :(

Michelle, do you think we will all wake up one morning and it will be blazing sunshine, 90 degrees and we won't see rain again for maybe a year :)

OK, OK, I know - I'm dreamin~

Oh sweet Jesus y'all, stop perpetuating the "Seattle is so rainy" myth. Seattle gets less rainfall than the national average. Are the skies often overcast from November to April? Yes. Do they get torrential rainfall? Almost NEVER. The rain is light or misty, the temperatures are very mild, and summers are absolutely to die for.

I guess y'all think that everyone in Texas wears a cowboy hat, too, am I right?

You mean that all the guys in Texas don't wear cowboy hats ??? :(

Scarlett, Unfortunately, we'll probably wake up one morning next week and it's going to be 110F and 90% humidity!! YUCK!! I still LOVE this city, though... ;)

Of course, today was beautiful in the Washington DC area, but tomorrow the rain returns. I usually have my flowers planted by May 5, but not this year, and my husband's tomato seedlings may not recover from their waterlogged state. They really don't look good. Usually we are schvitzing this time of year, and have been since at least mid-May. I hate to see what this unusually wet weather is going to do for the mosquito population and the spread of West Nile Virus. I'm loading up on the bugspray!

Yes, I live in CT and today is beautiful (first time in AGES), but I typed this after watching the forecast for the weekend, right after reserving an outdoor table for our anniversary dinner tomorrow night and guess what? More rain! And there's more rain in the extended forecast. I mentioned Seattle because I heard it rained a lot but after this washout of a spring in the northeast, I'm ready to move - I have the SAD disease, I need more sun!

Did you guys know that the average yearly rainfall is much greater in Atlanta than Seattle! True!

an article in todays new york times stated that the president, whose daughter jenna is studying in nyc, has put off summer by seeding the clouds until she can fit into her new swimsuit.
it was accompanied by a picture of her in some westside bar.
http://www.newyorktimes/lush.net

58 degrees and rainy this week in western Nebraska. I'm seriously considering turning on the heat tonight...usually it's in the 90's by now. We are in the 3rd year of a drought, though, so we're celebrating! I'm checking out resorts in Mexico, today on the web and living vicariously through their sun. Counting down the days till Thanksgiving and a family trip to Mexico.