Last Weekend it was our big snowfall, ever since then, it's been cloudy, and of couse very damp.

Last two days, foggy, cloudy, perhaps Monday a chance of sunshine, but Wednesday, more rain, clouds.

The ground will take a month to dry out. Being housebound has made me a grouch I guess.

I saw the sun this morning!

For about 30 seconds....

You should try living in one of the mountain valleys out west. During the winter we get inversions that'll keep the valleys socked in for weeks at a time. Every once in awhile you need to climb up above it to see some blue sky and sunshine. Lots of seasonal affective disorder around here.

Constant crappy weather does get old. The flip side ain't much fun either though IMO. We are notoriously bone dry in the summers. You won't see a cloud in the sky for weeks/months. This year I measured 0.00" of rain throughout all of July and August. For me, that's equally as draining.

Give me some variety, man!

If you like variety, Florida is where it's at!

You can be getting a torrential downpour in the summer and have to wear sunglasses because it's blinding you, all at the same time!

Of course you have to be tolerant to oppressive heat and humidity as well.

One thing that stuck with me in the Navy is it's always beautiful up there - you just need to keep climbing higher and higher - and sometimes your plane doesn't have the ass to get you above the clouds...

The Seasonal Effective Disorder thing or the Winter Bleus as we used to call it, used to hit me hard.
But two things really helped, one was getting a few indoor hobbies I really enjoy like wood carving and the other was swapping out the incandescent bulbs in my home to the much brighter LEDs.
I now turn on all the lights and the added brightness really helps push the gloom of winter aside.
Perhaps the blues are just a perception thing but the effect is certainly tangible.


74 days till March first.... but who’s counting !?!?

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Originally posted by Sunset_Va:
Last Weekend it was our big snowfall, ever since then, it's been cloudy, and of couse very damp.

Last two days, foggy, cloudy, perhaps Monday a chance of sunshine, but Wednesday, more rain, clouds.

The ground will take a month to dry out. Being housebound has made me a grouch I guess.

I'm probably about 40 miles north of you and we just endured a weekend where it has rained another 2 inches. The good news is the snow has mostly melted. The bad news is we won't dry out until July.

I heard the weather guy say that 2018 is the wettest year in SW VA in recorded history....and that was before this weekends drenching.

DAM!

In the recent snowfall, leading up to it, we were told repeatedly, that East of Richmond, we would get a "dusting". The dusting turned out to be 12 inches. I've often wondered, what you have to do to get fired as a TV weatherman, forget to comb your hair ?

Lots of rain and fog here for the past couple weeks.
I am a snow fan and we have yet to have any.

I know what you mean. In PA 2018 has been the wettest year I can remember. It was a cold wet spring, wet summer, cold wet fall and if it wasn't raining it was overcast for several days in a row. I think we've had more cloudy days than sunny days. I finally got fed up with the weather in PA so I loaded up my BMW R12GS in the back of my truck and drove out to Tucson, AZ. I arrived to 60+ degree temperatures and it's a joy to wear shorts and a tshirt in December. I've been getting some serious throttle therapy in over the next few days and have some great rides planned. The only downside is I have to go home on the 20th of December:-(

This thread reminds me of a comic I view every morning that's taped to my bathroom mirror.


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Gustofer hit it right on the head. In Western Montana, you might go a month before the sun shines. Thats exactly why we started finding sunny, warm spots to winter once we retired.

We spent 2 winters in Central Mexico and this is our second in Miramar Beach, Florida.

Sunshine, emerald water, white sand, warm tempuratures. And.......the sun shines.

Mike

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Originally posted by Sunset_Va:
Last Weekend it was our big snowfall, ever since then, it's been cloudy, and of couse very damp.

Last two days, foggy, cloudy, perhaps Monday a chance of sunshine, but Wednesday, more rain, clouds.

The ground will take a month to dry out. Being housebound has made me a grouch I guess.

Here in Western Washington, our next chance of sunshine is mid April. Add to that I'm at 48°30' North (sunrise today 7:56 AM, Sunset 4:17 PM), and this is pretty much the weather forecast until 1 May, winters here are more miserable than when I lived in ND. At least when it was 30° below, the sunshine would come through the window.