>> Ask anyone who has lived in the Puget Sound area and they will confirm -
>> these are not exaggerations in any way, shape, or form.
>
>As a bloke who met my ship at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, I can
>confirm the weather around there can be broken down into two types.
>Warm Rain and Cold Rain. Guess which type this Southern California
>Boy ran into when he reported aboard? *snicker*
>

For some value of "warm rain," perhaps. I've lived in Seattle all my life, and while there are times when the rain is warmer than usual, I have it on good authority (my parents spent a few years in Alabama) that it's nothing like warm rain in the southern U.S. I have no information to make comparisons with Southern California's rain. (Do they even have rain in SoCal?)

Also, we do occasionally have days when the sky turns an unpleasant shade of blue and this rather bright thing appears, but thankfully they don't last long, as residents consider it unpleasantly hot. People with experience of Texas or Southern California weather generally describe it as "comfortable" or "kinda warm."

Peter Eng
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I may be exaggerating in that last paragraph.