Rains All the Time: A Connoisseur’s…
A slim but enjoyable book. It details the impressions and facts of the weather in Oregon and Washington, from the days of Captains Drake, Cook, and Vancouver to the modern day. There is a lot of good information about weather forecasting and why it never seems to tell us what we want to know. In all fairness, we do get warnings of big storms — the likes of the Columbus Day storm of 1962 will likely not surprise anyone again — but the day in/day-out questions about whether it will rain and how much are still beyond the grasp of the weathermen.
No, it’s not Hawaii, nor is it the humid sweltering east coast, either. Been there, done that.