Look how depressing the weather is in Seattle, WA

You must be a sprinter or hobby jogger. That is perfect distance running weather.

Are you on the spectrum? What's up?

I was in Seattle as a kid in the summer of 86. If I had known better I would have been trying to go to the all ages shows and see grunge in its embryonic stages.

Funny you should say that.

I just got back from dinner and a couple of fantastic IPAs overlooking beautiful Lake Washington.

As you note, it was blustery as hell, windy, and a bit unusually chilly. But I couldn't help thinking how great this was, watching the chop in the Lake, the boats teatering on the docks. I felt so fortunate that the weather through a curve ball and opened my eyes to all this.

I'd take this any day over that soul sucking exteme temperatures.

But to each his own.

Don't let the good stuff pass you by.

'86 was still pretty early. For grunge to really take hold, give it a few more years.

Alternative would have been the thing to lookf for at that time. I know the stuff I was listening to them was coming out of places like Minnesota and Athens Georgia. And I bet you can tell who I am refering to.

I do.

I saw a home movie of Kurt and Chris from 1986 or 87. But they were playing in someone's living room and Kurt was singing facing a wall. They had a different name back then too. Various people that ended up in famous Seattle bands were also most likely playing in different bands at that point in time.

In general, or now.

It is going to be low-mid 70s from now through the weekend, mostly sunny with some clouds.

It will rain Monday.

cloudy and grey and a river. 90% of the people in the PNW live in a cloudy grey rainy seaport on a river.

It cost this guy his mind, as it does many residents. Not a good life.

It's a very good life. You have to master the emotion of sadhappy. You feel depressed but everything is so stunningly beautiful that you are insanely happy to be alive. It makes you very introspective. Distance running helped a lot as well as listening to and playing music.

If you want unhealthy, live in Las Vegas for awhile. I've been there 15 years and I would do anything for a 38 degree rainy day in Seattle.

Dude is standing by an engineer-tampered, probably polluted river, talking about trying to get away from all other people, even their smells. That's not happy behavior

I dü, I dü!

Hopefully it rains. That city needs a shower

Immediate disqualification, he's standing by Puget Sound. Have you ever even been within 1000 miles of Seattle?

If anything, the weather in Seattle is getting hotter in the Summer year after year. I am not sure I even want it to be "better" up here. I like the weather the way it is. But by normal standards, I think that in 10 years, the PNW will have the best weather in the country, hands down.

Our Summers are humidity-free. Can the rest of the country imagine what 82° and no humidity feels like? It is amazing. But that only lasts from June 1st to October 1st. The rest of the year is mild "running weather" if you know what I mean.

Though I will admit that the heatwaves of the last decade have caused problems up here with our forest fires, but the rest of our Summers are perfect.

BTW, it is not Seattle, but I ran the Pacific Northwest classic, McKenzie River Trail, less than a week ago. It was shirtless or singlet weather and open-water swimming afterwards:

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Yes, the weather here is awful 24/7/365!!! No one should ever visit. Anyone saying the summers are nice is LYING. I'd much rather have lots of snow than 40 degrees and a light misty rain. Humidity is the best.

I was working in a coffeehouse in Minneapolis in 1988, I think, 'and we'd occasionally have folk singers and such play. On March 17, our manager decided to book a roving group of bands from PNW who were passing through. My God they were awful - loud, unfocused, distorted, mumbling and shouting. This was worse than the most drunk-ass falling-down Replacements show I'd ever seen, because at least the Mats had some real songs. Anyway, we called it the St. Patrick's Day Massacre. Little did I know I was witnessing early Grunge. Can't remember the bands but none of them went on to any kind of fame.

LOL. For Minnesota, I was also thinking of one other replacements - and once again, I bet you can tell who I am refering to.

Good stuff - all of it!

You’re wrong about the weather in the summer. Feels great here never too hot never too cold. Pretty ideal. After September the weather is terrible and I hate it. Prices are trash. People don’t know how to interact with other people. It’s just a weird place to live and I can’t wait to move in the next couple weeks.