Now that the annoying-bordering-on-dangerous Heatwave of 2006 seems to be waning, I feel it's safe to rub in the following: Accuweather Forecast for the Seattle area, for the next week: Sunny, 74 degrees, dry, breezy. Oh, and last week too. And the week before that. Actually, that's the forecast for July through September, during which the weather people go on vacation because there's nothing to report.
I'm not rubbing this in because I'm mean or I don't like you. It's just in defense of my beloved city, and to inform all the people who really think I'm lying when I say: It does not rain all the time. So while you were sweating your balls off, or hiding from thunder and lightning storms, I was relaxing on the upper deck with limeade in the 72°, dry breezy sunshine. While it was 103° in Boston, 104° in Washington D.C. and 125° in Tucson.
We did have a heat wave of our own a few weeks ago, and after two days of temperatures in the 80's, people started dropping like flies on the street. I saw a funny ad on the side of a bus yesterday -- I think it was for Tully's -- and it had a picture of an iced something, and said, "Cold and refreshing, for those three hot days this year."
Anyway, I don't want to hear anymore gloom and doom about weather in the Pacific Northwest because every morning and evening, I still wear a fleece. I don't need an air conditioner. And I will never have to shovel my non-existent car out from under two feet of snow. Or two inches, for that matter.
(Remind me to re-read this in February.)
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