Rainy days are always gilt free days of hangin around in the house! There’s nothin like a good thunderstorm! Especially loved em because my landscaping guy would have the day off! Dancing in the rain is pretty fun too! And let’s not forget about the rainbows! Can’t have a rainbow without the rain!
@Lynnerizer best answer! Yes I love how when it’s pourrrring and horrible outside I don’t feel as lazy laying on the couch watching TV as I do when it’s a sunny beautiful day…
Loved listening to the big multi-day midwest thunderstorms ship against the windows of the daycare I was in as a kid. Hanging out with my friends, watching movies, and just relaxing.
It’s Oregon! What do you expect? It never stops raining here unless the temperature drops enough for snow or more likely freezing rain and black ice. If you want to work on your healthy pale white pallor then this is the place for you. You won’t see any overcooked Californians around here. Everything’s gray all the time. Get over it.
@tweezak And yet, various places in Oregon are at only 45% to 90% of average total precipitation right now for the Oct-June rain year. We’s in a multi-year drought and the forests are showing it. In my neighborhood, big, old cedar trees are dying from the top down.
Love them. It means I don’t have to water the garden, the weather cools down substantially, and if it is during the night, I have those soothing sounds to sleep by. Only real downside is my solar panels are less efficient, but since my AC doesn’t have to work as hard, it works out.
The only bad part the last couple of days was the dank hot muggy air that came with the storms. Even the power glitches and comcast hiccups didn’t bother me much.
I like the (occasional) rainy day, that’s what keeps the gardens (flowers and veggies) going strong. Not super fond of long stretches of rain (mold/mildew issues in the yard, barn, shop etc…) and infrequent backyard flooding the ensues from 6-8 + inches over a couple of days.
I’m even the kind of guy that doesn’t complain about rain on my vacations. Me to our kids: “Hey, guys… someone lives here all the time and they need rain occasionally too…”
I was born and raised in the Pacific North Wet, so I love a good rainy day. Nothing like curling up with a book on the couch drinking some hot chocolate when the rain is coming down hard outside.
Since everyone seems to be on the rain songs, I’ll offer up a piece of 70’s greatness in Peter Criss’ (Yes, from KISS) song, “I Can’t Stop The Rain” Starts out a bit slow but crescendos quite nicely…“It takes a witch to curse that God damned sky!” Criss Can’t Stop The Rain
I can get on board with an isolated 30 minute downpour, but rainy days are the worst. The isolated rain shower gives many of the advantages that people have cited (cool down a hot day, give necessary rain that plants need, make the lawn too wet to mow, seeing the rainbow afterward) without the disadvantage of having being cooped up inside all freaking day.
With the pandemic, I am already sick of staying home all the time and having so many leisure activities being off limits. Not even being able to get outside for a couple of hours makes it so much worse.
Those and Mondays always get me down…
@shahnm jinx!!
…and Mondays always get me down.
No, I love them!!!
@tinamarie1974 The extra couple of seconds you took adding those music notes emojis cost you dearly…
@shahnm it was worth it!
Rainy days are great because it makes my idiot neighbor stop mowing his lawn every six hours.
Rainy days are always gilt free days of hangin around in the house! There’s nothin like a good thunderstorm! Especially loved em because my landscaping guy would have the day off! Dancing in the rain is pretty fun too! And let’s not forget about the rainbows! Can’t have a rainbow without the rain!
@Lynnerizer best answer! Yes I love how when it’s pourrrring and horrible outside I don’t feel as lazy laying on the couch watching TV as I do when it’s a sunny beautiful day…
@Lynnerizer I do like dancing in the rain, it is so freeing!!
Loved listening to the big multi-day midwest thunderstorms ship against the windows of the daycare I was in as a kid. Hanging out with my friends, watching movies, and just relaxing.
It’s Oregon! What do you expect? It never stops raining here unless the temperature drops enough for snow or more likely freezing rain and black ice. If you want to work on your healthy pale white pallor then this is the place for you. You won’t see any overcooked Californians around here. Everything’s gray all the time. Get over it.
@tweezak And yet, various places in Oregon are at only 45% to 90% of average total precipitation right now for the Oct-June rain year. We’s in a multi-year drought and the forests are showing it. In my neighborhood, big, old cedar trees are dying from the top down.
@tweezak wow, stop yelling at us
Love them. It means I don’t have to water the garden, the weather cools down substantially, and if it is during the night, I have those soothing sounds to sleep by. Only real downside is my solar panels are less efficient, but since my AC doesn’t have to work as hard, it works out.
You missed out on a golden Paul Williams reference opportunity here.
@mossygreen
I saw what you did there!
Rainy days, it depends! Did it rain the previous five days, also?
But, this time of year, they are usually quite welcome.
Hot summer days need the cool water. Cold winter days need sunshine. So, it depends.
Kind of have to, I live in the PNW.
The only bad part the last couple of days was the dank hot muggy air that came with the storms. Even the power glitches and comcast hiccups didn’t bother me much.
It’s the difference between CHOOSING to stay inside and HAVING to stay inside.
@dptalia
CoViD 19
@chienfou Yes, and that is why I melt down regularly.
I like the (occasional) rainy day, that’s what keeps the gardens (flowers and veggies) going strong. Not super fond of long stretches of rain (mold/mildew issues in the yard, barn, shop etc…) and infrequent backyard flooding the ensues from 6-8 + inches over a couple of days.
I’m even the kind of guy that doesn’t complain about rain on my vacations. Me to our kids: “Hey, guys… someone lives here all the time and they need rain occasionally too…”
Cold rainy days. Yes.
Hot, humid rainy days. No.
Only love can bring the rain…
My boyfriend calls rain “death from above”. No one knows how to drive in the rain here so a rainy day is just a symphony of sirens.
@Fuzzalini ditto for 1/4" of snow in the south!
I was born and raised in the Pacific North Wet, so I love a good rainy day. Nothing like curling up with a book on the couch drinking some hot chocolate when the rain is coming down hard outside.
Also makes one appreciate summer that much more.
I love rainy days. I’m an agoraphobic and an overcast sky and rain pouring down, it makes the world feel smaller, safer.
Until the thunder starts.
For those that can’t stand the rain …
@mike808
or this:
Rainy days are lazy days. I get a break from yard work, and get to nerd out. Similar to the entire winter.
/youtube have you ever seen the rain
They mean it’s cool outside and not so dry my skin peels off.
Since everyone seems to be on the rain songs, I’ll offer up a piece of 70’s greatness in Peter Criss’ (Yes, from KISS) song, “I Can’t Stop The Rain” Starts out a bit slow but crescendos quite nicely…“It takes a witch to curse that God damned sky!”
Criss Can’t Stop The Rain
Can’t do my bike ride…
Fond memories of the '80s original. So cool they did a 35th anniversary release.
Let it all just rain on me…
(Vinahouse version of Oran “Juice” Jones)
Git yer GTA groove on…
Makes coffee taste better!
Rainy and 50-60F is my idea of perfect weather. Summer thunderstorms are good, too.
I am in the minority that hates rainy days.
I can get on board with an isolated 30 minute downpour, but rainy days are the worst. The isolated rain shower gives many of the advantages that people have cited (cool down a hot day, give necessary rain that plants need, make the lawn too wet to mow, seeing the rainbow afterward) without the disadvantage of having being cooped up inside all freaking day.
With the pandemic, I am already sick of staying home all the time and having so many leisure activities being off limits. Not even being able to get outside for a couple of hours makes it so much worse.
/youtube Mandy Barnett rainy days
If I have to mow, I like a dry day or two beforehand. Rain at night is nice; the sound is very soothing.
queue Eddie Rabbitt song…