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It's late June. Where is the sun in Seattle? (AP Photo/file)

You're not alone; KIRO hosts lament Seattle summer weather

BY Jamie Skorheim  on June 26, 2012 @ 12:15 pm (Updated: 8:10 am - 6/27/12 )

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Hey Seattle weather, it's LATE JUNE!

The drizzle has't let up and we're getting impatient for summer to appear.

"I'm seriously really down today. It's this weather. It's pouring right now," said 97.3 KIRO FM host Dori Monson on Tuesday, calling himself an idiot for living in Seattle for the last 50 years of his life.

"What kind of a moron would spend their summers in driving rain?" said Monson.

With all the rain and darkness outside, host Dave Ross got confused at his first hourly time check.

"God, it's dark out there," said Ross. "Is there a solar eclipse today or something?"

Co-host Luke Burbank said somebody had better call Will Smith, because only some alien craft blocking the sun could explain such dark days in June.

Even KING 5 meteorologist Rich Marriott addressed the weather disappointment in his morning forecast.

"We've got people that are pining away for summer, but it's not really showing up yet," said Marriott on Seattle's Morning News.

"At least it's warm rain for now," he said as a less than thrilling consolation.

After discovering it was summer everywhere else across the U.S., with temperatures reading 86 in Miami, 85 in Charlotte, 100 in Denver, Monson sounded ready to move.

"58 and rain in Seattle, Washington. What are we doing? What are we thinking?" said Monson. "I've had it. I can't take it anymore."

Wednesday might bring the first break in the gray with a forecast of mostly sunny, but then the National Weather Service says it's back to rain Thursday through Monday.

By JAMIE GRISWOLD, MyNorthwest.com Editor

Jamie Skorheim, MyNorthwest.com Editor
Whether it's floating on Green Lake, eating shrimp tacos at Agua Verde, or taking weekend drives out to the Cascades, she loves to enjoy the Pacific Northwest lifestyle as much as humanly possible.
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  • Fuego wrote...
    You don't have to look
    June 26, 2012 1:16 pm
    far to realize it's a lot worse in other parts of the country. East Coast heat and humidity? Texas or Arizona with smog and locust the size of cantaloupes? I'll suffer through the 65 and rainy just fine thank you.
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  • cheech312 wrote...
    Seattle is Beautiful
    June 26, 2012 1:25 pm
    and has a lot going for it, but the weather isn't one of those things. I lived there for 50 years before moving to Vegas and now Southern California. So if you're going to try to rationalize the weather as being acceptable in the PNW, then you're deluded, or is it DILUTED.
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  • hnuh wrote...
    06-26-2012 You're not alone; KIRO hosts lament...
    June 26, 2012 2:14 pm
    Hah! This spring and early summer is TWICE TIMES better than last year! It is still cooler than normal but you can find dry ground here and there this year. Mucho bet-tero... and you're still griping? C'mon... Cheer up! It'll be November soon enough!
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  • roomtemp wrote...
    Shut up, Monson...
    June 26, 2012 2:28 pm
    I was working in it all day while you were watching it out the window and whining about it from your padded chair in your heated studio... Guess which finger?

    Do a broadcast from the roof of your building and then you can whine.

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  • Rangerhawk wrote...
    Darn Global Cooling!
    June 26, 2012 2:35 pm
    How are we ever going to attract more Californians up here with weather like this?
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  • 2112 wrote...
    Moving back to my hometown of Spokane
    June 26, 2012 2:56 pm
    Has been on my mind more and more these last three years of the Gloomiest weather I have witnessed in Western Washington since 1983. The winters were cold but they have a great summer nearly every year and always a over the top gorgeous Indian summer into October.
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  • C"mon Man wrote...
    Population control
    June 26, 2012 3:01 pm
    Just think of even more sprawl than when Microsoft set-up shop here if we had decent weather.
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  • CH wrote...
    KIRO FM host Dori Monson on Tuesday, calling himself an idiot . . . .
    June 26, 2012 3:51 pm
    I think the word he was looking for was Moron. Moron idiot will work.
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  • kata wrote...
    no complaints!
    June 26, 2012 4:02 pm
    I've lived in many parts of this country. Eight foot snow drifts in snot-freezing minus twenty degrees... week long 110 degree weather. 90 degree weather with 100% humidity. Tornadoes... hurricanes. Snakes and lizards in my kitchen...

    But please, keep telling the rest of the world how miserable it is. :)

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  • Christi wrote...
    SLOW NEWS DAY?
    June 26, 2012 4:23 pm
    Seriously? Can you REALlY complain, while Colorado is going up like a torch because all of the trees are dead because of Beetle kill and drought? Then in the winter, it is either dry and everybody starves, or they get 500 inches and you can't move. Never mind the 20 below zero. No flooding, heatstroke or grasshopper plagues. 72 degrees and some sprinkes is the worst you can come up with? I hope there is some grave injustice to harp about tomorow, for your sake.
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  • Keitho wrote...
    Weather only a native could love
    June 26, 2012 4:24 pm
    A Seattle native friend recently posted on Facebook "what I love about Seattle is that I can drive just 2-3 hours (Chelan) and be in 80+ sunny weather". Those of us who have lived anywhere else in the country can see the obvious flaw in that comment. Anywhere else in the country its 80+ where you are. No need to drive 3 hours to find it. Heck Anchorage is 20 degrees warmer today!
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