52 inches

[freespirit82]

That's the average annual rainfall in Olympia. Fifty-two inches per year. That's roughly an inch of rain every week, although it doesn't come like that. It all comes in the winter with July and August quite dry. Carrying an umbrella, however, marks you as an outsider, someone not from 'round these soggy parts. I need to get a good rainjacket.

Comments

[hoorayiwake]

Um, yeah... in Bellingham we used to laugh at people who carried umbrellas, because it's obviously "foreigner" logic to think that carrying an umbrella in sideways rain keeps you dry! :)

[freespirit82]

According to tonight's lecture it's actually 55 inches.

[hoorayiwake]

You do realize that gets you halfway to rainforest status, right? :)

[designdriver]

i find the umbrella/jacket dichotomy fascinating, and wonder if it is regional - for instance, in Chicago, at least in my neighborhood, people often carry umbrellas. In the windy city.

Perhaps they haven't heard of gore tex.

[addieixam]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMzgVshG6CI