I Luv Winter & Snow. To me a beautiful Spring is a crisp morning looking upon snow covered mountains.

& besides, its still January. A few more months til spring.

Im from the East coast. Seems the things that make Western Washington so beautiful is what people from Western Washington complain about.

So to answer the question, no, im not craving a spring just yet.

fascinating post, and such a novel topic hardly ever discussed. Very brave to bring it up.

Yes, always ready for spring. Anything above 50 degrees (with or without sun) is ok by me. What's really nice about spring and summer in Western Wa is the fact that the local TV weather forcasters can finally stop the guessing and hopeing about weather conditions for the next 72 hours. I spoke a couple of years ago with a recently retired TV weatherman, meteorologist and former NOAA scientist. He said that the Puget Sound Basin and Western Washington in general is one of the worst places in the domestic U.S. to get an accurate forecast. 21st century computor models and dopler this and that don't help much. He said being tucked in between two major mountain ranges throws weather forecasts in the dumpster about every third time, particularly during the winter months. Its why we get "surprise" snow storms and wind storms that suddenly show up during the morning commute.

I've lived in almost every climate in the United States imaginable. I prefer Washington hands down. We have a pretty temperate climate compared to others. Yes, sometimes the gray skies can be depressing, but, we still live in one of the most incredibly beautiful states in America.
I don't know what I would do without the Olympics to look at, or ever snow covered Mt. Rainier...
No, I am not a Weather Wuss...and I am still waiting for the big "snow storm" out here in Kitsap County. Bring it on!

YUP. I grew up in Eastern Washington. Our winters were a lot like this one: Cold, SNOW, and blue skies. March was the start of a peak at spring. That meant slush,frozen slush, muddy slush and guess what, blue skies. When I moved here in '64 I felt like I was sleeping in a wet bed for the first year, and where o where had the sun gone. I made my peace with it and I worked in a building with almost zero windows. I took walks no matter what the weather during my lunch break, hauled aquariums into my work area, stood outside during breaks with my steaming coffee and invented every opportunity I could to duck outdoors for something or other. Fortunately, the human being in need is tremendously creative. One of my favorites was hanging a huge light over my desk and bringing fresh flowers regularly. Now that
I am retired and finally out of my mole-hole I am even more aware of that mile or so of gray above us. I've a friend from Montana who is experiencing the same thing and has compensated by having sky lights put in every room but the living room. As for me, I still get outdoors even when the rain comes down sideways and the street is a river;there is something about looking at the gray from inside that is worse than being outside under it. I swim as often as I can, sit in the hot tub, bask in sauna. I still buy fresh flowers and have made my house as bright as possible. I bought a wonderful, huge saltwater aquarium and put the best lights over it I could afford and spend a lot of time watching and feeding the fishes while the glow of an Hawaiian tropical scene assuages my psyche. I play the Ukulele and love any song about the islands. As for you, since you are still working, I suggest you redecorate your mole hole. Get the brass at the office to paint a tropical scene on one wall, install an aquarium that is 100-200 gallons, cover it with about $1000 of tropical lighting (Hey it's cheaper than therapy) and stock it with flashy fish...one Picasso Trigger by itself will do the trick...color and action... Visit your tanning parlor now and then if you are not too afraid of the rays, play racket ball at the gym as the lighting is terrific. Good luck my friend. Unless you get posted to a sunnier clime you just have to be trickier than the weather, full of clever schemes to get outside and then grit your teeth and bear with the cloud cover. UH, real spring, unless you have forgotten, usually doesn't arrive until late June and Summer comes in September. ;0) BTW if you spend one year in Seattle no one will ever call you a weather wus.

Rob..... You are an arrogant, stuck-up Jerk !!!!

Take a look at yourself before you thumb your nose at a regular citizen again.....

You and Amy Clancy would get along great, seeing as how she is a pretentious bitch !!!

First off...Chris. What's up that crap?

Back to Rob's question. My own theory is as soon as Christmas is over it should be spring. We have just spent our first west side winter here in 11 years. And we did it in an RV. We sold our house in Moses Lake in June and was going to travel around playing till spring. I broke my ankle again in September and have since had surgery to fuse it together, which is a 4 month healing process. It's been a long winter staring out an RV window.

Moses lake has 300 days of sunshine a year and averages 10 inches of rain a year. I forgot just how dreary it can be on this side. So, to reward ourselves for surviving our first winter here, we have just bought a home in Montesano. You know, Grays Harbor County. The rain capital of the nortwest. At least my new home will have a new roof on it after the December storm blew it off in chunks.

Yeah. I can't wait till spring gets here.

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