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7. People start complaining about the cold

Reply to AsahinaKimi (Reply #3)

Sun Jun 23, 2013, 02:25 AM

Jun 2013

when it gets to freezing here, it rarely gets below that in the winter. But it's also in the rain shadow of the Olympic mountains, so we don't get the amount of precipitation (whether rain or snow) Vancouver does (still plenty though!)

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