# the rain:love it or not? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 17, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rain-love-it-or-not/255623 "2004-07-17T20:48:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rain-love-it-or-not/255623/41 "2004-07-19T20:19:15Z")
October usually brings with it the hot, dry Santa Ana winds. I hope we can at least get some real rain by early November at the latest. These days, the only thing falling from the sky around here is one dead crow after another. ---
**Author:** ![Vision\_of\_Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Vision\_of\_Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vision_of_Love)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rain-love-it-or-not/255623/42 "2004-07-20T00:26:18Z")
I enjoy being outside in the rain when I have the right clothes for it. I don’t remember the last time I did this though. The rain does smell great, especially in warmer climates. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rain-love-it-or-not/255623/43 "2004-07-20T01:27:49Z")
Love it or hate it? Hmm … I live in the lightning capital of North America. Rain here usually means thunderstorms and lots of that dangerous lightning. I don’t like lightning much. It scares me. We are in our rainy season. Usually this means that there’s a quick thunderstorm in the morning, afternoon or evening, or sometimes a combination of two. It usually gets in a pattern of just mornings or just afternoons for a while and then switches off again. The rest of the day the sun comes out and it’s like a sauna out there. However right now we are on our third straight day of constant rain. There have been only short sun breaks lasting maybe half and hour to an hour at most. My sinuses are killing me. My roof leaks and I can’t afford to get it fixed. Chalk me up as a “hate it”. ---
**Author:** ![Cockatiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cockatiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cockatiel)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rain-love-it-or-not/255623/44 "2004-07-20T02:22:40Z")
Oh, I forgot to mention thunderstorms! Those are actually my favorite kind of weather, aside from snow. It’s really great just lying in bed, listening to the rain on the roof and the thunder crashing outside. The lightning is the best part though, especially when it’s forked and close enough to illuminate a pitch black room for a split second. ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rain-love-it-or-not/255623/45 "2004-07-20T14:28:26Z")
> [@Tiramisu](#): > > I live in the lightning capital of North America. Rain here usually means thunderstorms and lots of that dangerous lightning. I don’t like lightning much. It scares me. > > We are in our rainy season. Usually this means that there’s a quick thunderstorm in the morning, afternoon or evening, or sometimes a combination of two. It usually gets in a pattern of just mornings or just afternoons for a while and then switches off again. The rest of the day the sun comes out and it’s like a sauna out there. However right now we are on our third straight day of constant rain. There have been only short sun breaks lasting maybe half and hour to an hour at most. I was going to say exactly this, but I don’t have to. So just, “Ditto.” I’m not certain where you live, **Tiramisu** , but this is exactly what happens around here in the summer. The best part is watching the afternoon downpour end, and having the streets steaming from the water boiling off of them when the sun comes back out. It turns into a damn steam room and just make the heat more miserable. I love the rain, though, because that’s when it cools off a little. However, it has been raining non-stop since Friday, and it’s getting to be a little much. ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rain-love-it-or-not/255623/46 "2004-07-20T22:39:38Z")
I’m another one who loves the rain, especially after a hot, muggy, summer day. My apartment is set up so that I can get a wonderful view of thunderstorms, and I love the way the earth smells after it rains. Last week, I got to enjoy one more pleasure – huddling close to a gentleman friend as we both tried to stay under an umbrella while walking to and from the car! CJ ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rain-love-it-or-not/255623/47 "2004-07-20T23:29:25Z")
I miss rain. San Francisco has about a two-week long rainy season, then all we get for moisture is fog. We really need a good gully-washer once a month to wash all of the dust away, not to mention the homeless excrement off the sidewalks downtown. :eek: More than just missing rain, I miss dramatic weather. I miss seeing a flash in the sky and counting to estimate how far away the strike was. (5 seconds between flash and boom = about a mile away) And rain falling so hard that it hurts. ---
**Author:** ![nonpolar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3da27b/32.png) [@nonpolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nonpolar)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rain-love-it-or-not/255623/48 "2004-07-21T01:02:26Z")
> [@mamakat](#): > > Love, love, LOVE the rain. Just moved to the Seattle area, and can’t wait for the rainy winter season!! The best sound in the whole world is rain on the roof. North west has the best weather,never to cool or to hot.And the rain up there is simply magic. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rain-love-it-or-not/255623/49 "2004-07-21T01:11:50Z")
> [@Bambi Hassenpfeffer](#): > > I was going to say exactly this, but I don’t have to. So just, “Ditto.” I’m not certain where you live, **Tiramisu** , but this is exactly what happens around here in the summer. > > The best part is watching the afternoon downpour end, and having the streets steaming from the water boiling off of them when the sun comes back out. It turns into a damn steam room and just make the heat more miserable. I love the rain, though, because that’s when it cools off a little. However, it has been raining non-stop since Friday, and it’s getting to be a little much. Actually, I probably live about 20 minutes away from you. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rain-love-it-or-not/255623/50 "2004-07-21T02:24:12Z")
Wasn’t it nice when it stopped for a couple hours? I like our daily showers, but this 24/7 constant downpour is just too much. It was supposed to stop today, but BN9 has moved that projection to Thursday. And I think it’s funny that I could pick out a fellow Bay area Doper by a weather description. ::Adds **Tiramisu** to the list.:: ---
**Author:** ![MidnightRadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rain-love-it-or-not/255623/51 "2004-07-21T10:36:12Z")
> [@KRM](#): > > Preach it Brother and/or Sister! I play a thunderstorm CD everynight to lull me to sleep. Heh. When you live in Oklahoma, who needs a CD? 🙂 > [@TVeblen](#): > > …it just sort of spontaneously pees on you even when the sun’s out… My friend and I call those “golden showers”. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rain-love-it-or-not/255623/52 "2004-07-21T19:10:27Z")
Hate the rain, especially if I have to be out in it. Really hate getting rained on. Hate the way it makes my head and body feel. Oddly enough, a significant exception is full-blown thunderstorms. As long as I don’t have to be out there getting rained _on_, I like lightning and thunder and the really torrential rain of a thunderstorm – must be something the electricity does, or some difference it makes in the barometric pressure situation for the bottom to drop out like that, but thunderstorms make me feel quite pleasant and excited, unlike plain rain which makes me very very irritable. The only weather worse than rain are its colder uglier cousins freezing rain and melting slush – where you’re getting pelted with 31.5° rain or slush while trying to walk on ultraslick-slippery icesnow with a layer of cold water on top of it and you’re cold and miserable. ---
**Author:** ![shy\_kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@shy\_kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_kat)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rain-love-it-or-not/255623/53 "2004-07-21T19:54:25Z")
Adore it, especially sitting out on our screened porch. I love the ozone smell, and the smell of wet greenery and earth. I’m awed by the power of a thunderstorm and soothed by the patter of drizzle. Don’t like hiking in it though… ---
**Author:** ![sangfroid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@sangfroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sangfroid)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rain-love-it-or-not/255623/54 "2004-07-22T00:18:52Z")
LOVE the rain; most responses seem to agree. A basic need such as water may factor in here somewhere. Many areas of our delightful little rock in space starve for water. (including here, eh L.A. Dopers?) Irrigation can only go so far. I like the sound, the feel, the smell. Might be genetic, who knows. I can sympathize w/ the deep south, but hey, if you hate it that much, move to AZ. or L.A. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2004, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rain-love-it-or-not/255623/55 "2004-07-22T01:25:43Z")
I love the rain, and the more dramatic the better. But then, I’m a Weather Channel junkie. We’ve had five or six years of drought here (South Carolina) and this last spring and summer we’ve had lots and lots of wonderful rain. And wonderful lower-than-usual temperatures (meaning mostly in the mid-90s). My lawn is green and the pollen is under control. No complaining about the weather here this year! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-rain-love-it-or-not/255623.md?page=2)