I have a feeling this is a case of lies, damned lies, and statistics, so let's look at typical summer rain day in Miami, the city of my youth, and #2 on the list.
You wake up and it's sunny. Throughout the day, clouds build over the everglades. You get beautiful puffy cumulus clouds dotting the sky. Around mid-afternoon, darker clouds float in from the everglades and intersect with the cool ocean breeze:
You get lightning and thunder and it starts to rain. It rains buckets of water of biblical proportions the likes of which you have never seen for about 30 minutes. Then it stops and suddenly it is sunny again:
That's it. A rain day in Miami is typically a 30-minute extremely intense event surrounded by sunshine on both sides.
Compare that with my current city, #14 on the list, and typical of a mid-Atlantic state in late spring. Today, we'll have drizzle all day long and 100% cloud cover. I imagine this is much more like most Seattle rain days than a Miami rain day. We'll get less rain all day today than Miami does in 30 minutes. While they are both nominally rain days, they leave very different impressions.
A good example how a little statistical manipulation can mislead people. Miami in this above chart says it rains more, and has almost as many rainy days, than Seattle-- yet, when we look at other data that compares amount of sunshine, Miami is incredibly sunny compared to Seattle:
You wake up and it's sunny. Throughout the day, clouds build over the everglades. You get beautiful puffy cumulus clouds dotting the sky. Around mid-afternoon, darker clouds float in from the everglades and intersect with the cool ocean breeze:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Miamisum...
You get lightning and thunder and it starts to rain. It rains buckets of water of biblical proportions the likes of which you have never seen for about 30 minutes. Then it stops and suddenly it is sunny again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPNwuPen1zQ
That's it. A rain day in Miami is typically a 30-minute extremely intense event surrounded by sunshine on both sides.
Compare that with my current city, #14 on the list, and typical of a mid-Atlantic state in late spring. Today, we'll have drizzle all day long and 100% cloud cover. I imagine this is much more like most Seattle rain days than a Miami rain day. We'll get less rain all day today than Miami does in 30 minutes. While they are both nominally rain days, they leave very different impressions.