What does the founder of the Seattle Weather Blog—and its corresponding 75,000-follower Twitter account—tweet about on a dreary and meteorologically uneventful evening in late January? “The sun won’t set before 5pm again in Seattle until November.”
Justin Shaw made that off-the-cuff observation on a dark downtown bus ride pre-pandemic while rubbing puffy coats with other commuters who hadn’t seen the light of day since they left for work that morning.
It struck a nerve—one that Seattleites typically reserve for Shaw’s snowflake-laden communiqués. His followers brooded (“I will just have to endure the hellacious bright times until November comes again” —@williamslauram). They celebrated (“THANK FUCKING GOD” —@mkrainacker).
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