10 Degrees of Precipitation

I heard on the news this morning before leaving the house that we were headed into our 22nd consecutive day of rain here in Seattle. Having been gone for half of that it doesn't seem so bad to me - we had nice days over Xmas in Torino, snow in Florence, and then rain most of the time we were in Rome. But I know my father-in-law has told me that Sophia will stand on the front porch and just refuse to budge, she's had it with rainy walks.

For years Steve and I have joked about designing a postcard or poster about Ten Degrees of Precipitation, modeled after the "Seven Degrees from Kevin Bacon" game, at least aliteration-wise. We've not sat down and done it yet, but often we'll be in the car and you would overhear a conversation like this:

S: It's starting to rain.

W: No, that's not rain. I can tell you about REAL rain. That's just a drizzle.

S: Don't you think it's just a sprinkle?

W: Maybe it was just a spit. It seems to have stopped.

S: It could just be thick air with water in it...fog but not fog...I had to use the wipers for a second. Remember that WARM rain in Florida??

W: Let's see, that's sprinkle, drizzle, spit, fog, rain...I know there's more...we really need to write these down sometime and publish a postcard or something!


You get the idea. Being a native of the Northwest I truly could care less about whether it's raining or not. I admit there are some activities I may curtail of it's raining hard, but some of the time that's the best time to go! Everyone else will be huddling indoors somewhere, and us diehards, armed with an umbrella, will actually have a good time with less crowds.

HAVE A DEGREE OF PRECIPITATION TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE LIST? Post a comment for publishing, and maybe we'll get those postcards printed once and for all!