Me thinks that the locals in the Puget Sound area spread the talk about the severe wet weather they have a lot, a lot more than they actually have
My Son in Laws Mother move to Tacoma in 1979, we took him and my daughter along with our first grandson to show his mother the new baby in the spring (mid April)of 1981 or 1982 for five days up their. CRS It sprinkled a tiny bit on two of those days, the rest where great days compared to SO CA Mojave desert where we all lived back then.
He moved up to Roy ,WA in 1997 and we have been going up there to visit him and the grandkids ever since. We have had foggy mornings some times, not often, and overcast all day with no rain as well as some rain, not a BUNCH of rain ever
Maybe as his mothers says we bring the good weather with us when we come up their to visit them Maybe NOT
It is a lot more congested now up their now than it was back in the early 1980s