chepar, go to www.weatherbase.com and check out the historical data for Seattle and any comparison cities. I have lived in the Midwest, on both coasts (and the Gulf coast) and I can say with assurance that Seattle's annual rainfall is less than anywhere else I have lived.

Seattle has lovely weather. We mostly keep it a secret because it's crowded enough here already ;-)

The driest 80 day period in Seattle history now.


Yet the temperature map YTD assures that Washington State has no worries:

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012...nental-us?lite


But that's nothing compared to the Oregon coast, which is the one area in the lower 48 which is having the coldest year, relatively speaking, so far.