You check the weather report and it says it’s raining in Seattle. Or sunny in Seattle. Or something in Seattle—but not the something you see outside the window. You get hyped for snowstorms that never happen. You lose sunglasses because the sun never came out when it was supposed to. Why? Because Seattle weather is difficult, for many reasons. Not just difficult to live in, but difficult to predict.
The trouble starts with the definition of “Seattle.” Since 1948, the official climate reporting site for the city of Seattle has actually been located outside the city limits, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport—12 miles south of downtown. At the time, there
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