Don\u2019t take it too personal that Mother Nature lets it rain a ton on us Northwesterners\u2014there are scientific reasons why we get dumped on all the time.<\/p>\n
We have a constant windy blast above us called the jet stream. Think of it as a gigantic train in the upper atmosphere that chugs a bunch of weather systems right through where we are. During December, the jet stream brings through a weather system phenomenon called \u201cThe Pineapple Express\u201d\u2014nicknamed as such because our weather comes from the waters by our pineapple-y friend, Hawai\u2019i. <\/p>\n
The Pineapple Express chugs its way through, bringing storm after storm from the waters surrounding Hawai\u2019i, up to the Gulf of Alaska. This time of year, we get the least amount of light and the most amount of rain\u20146.4 inches of rainfall in the month of December alone and only 8 hours of daylight as opposed to the 15 hours of sunny-shine we get when school lets out.<\/p>\n