This is one of the best lightning shots I've ever seen!
Unfortunately, I live in a one level house surrounded by multi-level houses on all sides, so I didn't get to see quite the light show that some other people did, but the potential for these storms is another reason to love summer in the PNW. I know that people who have lived elsewhere thought that it was pretty tame compared to what they've experienced in other places, but I would ask you to keep in mind that some of us have only ever lived here and experienced the weather here. Obviously even our most intense weather doesn't get as intense as it does in other parts of the country/world, but for what we normally experience, last night was both rare and exciting.
You just have to keep in mind that your experiences don't necessarily apply to other people. You might not make time for enjoying the sunny weather, but other people do and it's not because they don't have responsibilities.
I'm pretty sure Scott knows what a funnel cloud looks like.
As much as I enjoyed the 60 degree weather today, I'd be perfectly okay with snow in November too.
Whether this was a "real world issue" or not really depends on your perspective. It may not have been a "real world issue" on the scale of the issues you mentioned, but that doesn't mean it wasn't a "real world issue". Yes, the media hype surrounding this case greatly sensationalized it, but try telling anyone involved in it or anyone whose lives were affected by it that it wasn't a "real world issue".
That weather wasn't our normal weather, no matter how much you say it was. Again, it's great if you enjoyed it, but a lot of people didn't. Doesn't mean we all want Texas weather. Just means we want our normal, which we didn't get. No need to take yourself so seriously.
I've lived here my whole life, but that doesn't mean that I liked what we got for the first half of summer this year. It also doesn't mean that I'm itching to move to a place where it's 100 degrees everyday for three straight months and frankly I'm tired of people telling me and others like me that if we like hotter weather so much, we should just move. Most of us weren't calling for Texas-type heat and humidity. All we wanted was normal weather for Seattle and anybody that has kept track of the weather this year could tell ya that we weren't getting that for more than half of the year. If I remember correctly, I think we had lower than normal temperatures in every month from January to July this year. Again, I'm happy for you that you were comfortable with it, but some of us weren't. We wanted what we're used to and didn't really start to get until August.
While I'm disappointed that we didn't hit 90, I'll still take the heatwave that we did get considering how long it took us to get one. I know that a lot of people who comment on this site about the weather would prefer it if it never got warmer than 75, but for hot weather fans, the last two years have been fairly depressing. I was still seeing my breath and wearing a heavy coat or a thick sweatshirt in the middle of the afternoon in July because it was barely reaching the 50's. I'm not saying that it needed to be 90 degrees everyday for three solid months, but enough was enough with the cool stuff.
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