Here's a list to depress you all:
The 11 drizzliest cities:
Saginaw Mich 181 precipitation days/year
Buffalo NY 168
Syracuse NY 168
Binghampton NY 163
Olympia Wa 163
Seattle Wa 160
Cleveland Oh 156
Akron Oh 153
Burlington Vt 153
Pittsburgh Pa 152
Portland Or 152

Most of the Eastern Cities on this list probably have at least half of their
precipitation days as snow or sleet days. It should be mandatory for people
in any of these cities to spend a week in the desert every winter to remind
themselves of what the sun looks like..........LOL

"Iris Cohen" wrote in message
...
It's a common experience when we decide to get away on a weekend to
start
seeing the sun as soon as we've traveled 30 miles or so, in any direction.
My
wife and I always joke about it ("as soon as we leave Pittsburgh, the sun
comes
out...")

Syracuse is like that, too. It is supposedly the rainiest/snowiest city of
its
size (150,000) in the country. I'm sure Pittsburgh is better than Seattle.

Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)