I dont think it rained again until i left in October and as far as im aware it was pretty much the same everywhere in the PNW. This summer in Whistler it rained a lot until June and then stopped completely. Most of Ireland isn't that mountainous so the inland areas get vastly less rain than the mountainous areas. I see where you are coming from Medic but you are making the mistake of assuming our national rainfall average is accurate everywhere (as for never having spent any time in PNW, i lived in Whistler/North Vancouver for the last two years so.yeah). plus that vid of the Lake District in Whales just made me crazy wanting to be over there again (been ike 3 years since I was over to see the fam) I love driving on the M's over there cause people DO NOT drive in teh fast lane just to cruise along, and traffic just flows so much better. ![]() It's like waving a gun aroud in a crowded room with some fo these idiots. Everyone here feels entitled to drive and the don't seem to realize how deadly a car can be. Some of you lot drive like crazzy fookers (being passed by a kid in a turbo Fiesta on a BARELY 2 lane road with jagged rck wals 5 ft high on both sides of the road is a life shcangeing expereince aye hahahaha), but at least you guys actually have the concept that driving is a SERIOUS THING (and training in HOW TO DRIVE). ![]() a Good set of winter tyres does wonders, but everyone HERE just decides to get studs put and then for the majority of the time it's never snowy so they just chews the roads and have even WRSE traction on bare roads :headslap: Seriously, US drivers are so BAD. Hood here in OR for a few years aftter HS. My truck is a mountain goat in teh snow and I worked up on Mt. I do my "good Karma" deeds for the year and go out in my Hillux and pull people out of ditches to save them the cost of and the ong wait on a Tow Truck. Portland Oregon is litterally PARALYZED when it snows. it's the same in the citys here, we get that wet, slippery snow (people can't belive how much dry snow actually AIDS traction as it packs the tyre treads and actually sticks to the other snow) that likes to freeze over at night and turn into ice and frost. Wet snow is a bitch to drive in espescialy when drivers see it so rarely in the UK. It also has to do with the storm tracks we get coming down from Alaska and since we live on the side of the biggest body of water in the world Oh AND we get many many FEET of snow which is just frozen rain. It's pretty crazy to have a desert climate just the other sides of the Cascades, but WEST of the Cascades. The UK is so comparitively flat that storms just move across the land in a way that doesn't hapen here. It's because of our topography that we have the climate we do. Yes we get a form of summer, and maybe we even get more sunny days, but we get more average rain fall yearly too. I know what you mean about the constant grey skies in the UK, but having been born in the North of Scottland (inverness) and spending a LOT of time there I've never seen a rain storm like what we get all fall/winter long here (this weekend it was raining so hard the water was bouncing 2 FEET in the air after hitting the ground). It's called the "Cascade Rain-shadow" and untill you've experienced it you've never SEEN rain fall this hard or long. ![]() It's a different type of rain, but we actualy get more anual rainfall in the PNW then all of the UK and IRE yearly. I'm not saying you live in a "dry" region, but that statement just shows you've never spent any serius time here. "Your rain pales in comparison to Ireland and the UKs." hahahahahaha Ok whatever.
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