> A tourist arrives in Vancouver on a rainy day. He gets up the next morning and it's still raining. In fact, it's still raining three days later. He goes out to supper and spies a young kid. Out of despair, he asks, "Hey kid, does it ever stop raining around here?!" The kid says, "How should I know, mister? I'm only six."
Now that I'm back in California I get a lot of weird looks in the office when I go out into the rain on purpose. It's a lot easier to appreciate the rain here when it's not raining nonstop for nine months.
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I was there in the rainy season, it rained harder than I ever imagined possible for ten hours a day, every day.
I wound up finding mould on my clothes, on my fridge, inside my Jeep, etc. etc. It was extremely hard, so after a month I drove north into Mali where the rainy season was basically over :)
I saw rain staggeringly heavy more times than I can count on the West Coast of Africa - it was truly incredible. Now that I think about it, I'm not sure I ever got it on film.
Now, this was in the 90s. I don't know if the rain is harder now, due to, you know, the changin' weather.
Honestly doesn't sound like that much to me. >150 is typical for most cities here in Germany. Munic has 193 rainy days per year.
So it just seems like the people living in the PNW are exaggerating a bit.
Edit: Granted, the time of the year that solar is likely too spotty, we do have rain.
