"Bob Harrington" wrote in message
That it is! Many folks tend to exaggerate the sogginess here, in
reality the rainy season seldom exceeds the period from January to
December...

LOL@seldom exceeds the period from January to December

As a Washingtonian, you know how different the climate is on the east side
of the Cascades. I'm in Spokane, and every time I chat with someone from
elsewhere in the country and say I'm from Washington, they say, "oh, where
it rains all the time". Very hard to convince them that there are deserts,
semi-arid regions, steppes, and piney woods parts of Washington in addition
to rain forests.