Sun Day!

It’s a beautiful sunny day after a long series of rainy, cloudy days.

I separate rainy and cloudy because of a Seattle resident I met at Starbucks. He was standing at the bar waiting near me and talking loudly to the barrista about Seattle weather so I commented.

“Actually, we get a lot more rain than Seattle. We’re on the edge of a rainforest, too.”

This is true. Seattle gets 38 inches a rain a year while Chattanooga gets 52.48. And yes, the .48 counts when you have to walk a newly housebroken puppy. The rainiest city in the U.S. is Mobile, Alabama where my daughter used to live, topping out at 65 inches or 5.4 feet of rain in 12 months! But I didn’t say all of this, thank goodness.

“It’s not the rain. It’s the gloom!” he snarled back in return. “People don’t get it. It’s the lack of sunshine that’s the problem!” He was yelling now.

Since he obviously hadn’t gotten his first cup of coffee yet and was apparently in some kind of sunshine-deprived funk, I just oh really’d him and listened while he growled. Then I popped on the internet to check.

Sure enough, according to Sperling’s Best Places, Seattle gets 152 days of sunshine a year compared to Chattanooga’s 207. But Mobile, Alabama, rainfall capital of the U.S., beats us both at 220 sunny days a year. But we do beat Nashville’s 205 days. I’m just saying.

(Note: this includes partly cloudy days and definitions vary wildly with Seattle getting as few as 52 days of full sun per year.)

My point? It’s a sunny day so I’m out of here . . . strictly as an example . . . I’m only thinking of you . . .