Summer depression report from Mordor - er, Seattle

[mollyringle]

While Texas drowns and another hurricane barrels toward the East Coast, wildfire smoke is filling Seattle’s sky, filtering the sun to a dim orange circle. We’ve had the driest summer on record, barely a drop of rain since mid-June. Heat and drought have rendered all the grass brown and the plants desiccated. Leaves are shriveling up and falling off

Comments

[ext_696402]

You should move to Australia... *southern* Australia. Not only is the weather cooler, we could hang out!

[mollyringle]

From the way you describe Walhalla, I think I could quite like it most of the year! And hanging with you would be the best part. :)

[archaeologist_d]

While I love cool summers, I have to agree about the heating and sweating. Sorry that Seattle isn't raining by now. :(

[mollyringle]

Yeah, I think the monotony is what gets to me. Well, that and it actively being on fire!

[serai1]

OMG YOU TOO???

I was RAISED in Los Angeles and have never been able to stand the summers here. It's unending oppression from May to October. All that fucking heat and BRIGHT BRASSY LIGHT and never a moment to rest. My favorite weather is also fog and rain and coolth, and I've never been happier than the six years I spent up in Santa Cruz, nestled between the ocean and the redwoods, where every day of the year started with five hours of cool fog, no matter what season. I miss it SO FUCKING MUCH. I've been DONE with L.A. for years now, but I have no way to escape. ARGH.

[mollyringle]

Ah, I'm so glad to hear this! Goes to show that people don't simply acclimate to wherever they live, the way some claim--well, some people probably do, but others of us have definite tastes about temperature and climate, and it can be unrelated to what we're used to. Some British people long for the heat and move to Spain, and some born in the desert want to move to a cool, wet place. I was lucky to be born in the climate I like. It's just that it's behaving wrongly right now.

The Northern-Cal coast is fantastic! We went to Monterey in July, and it was basically perfect. About 75 degrees maximum ever, plenty of cool morning fog, gorgeous scenery, whales. They have it good around there.