re: 3 day stay in Seattle, must do’s?

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You'll be fine. No idea what that guy was talking about, never rains around the 4th in Seattle. Looks like it's only rained on the 4th once or twice since 2000.

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Seattle has had quite the run lately but it's also the longest run in their recorded history.

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It used to be that 4th of Julys were consistently dicey around Seattle, and numbers back that up as Independence Day is statistically the wettest day of July.

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But it sure hasn't been that way recently.

As sunshine fills the skies Tuesday with temperatures topping out in the comfortable 70s, 2017 will the the seventh Fourth of July in a row where it hasn't rained in Seattle. The last rainy Fourth was in 2010

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That kind of streak has never happened in the city's records. The previous stretch had been six years set between 1963 through 1968. But even then, four of those years had a trace of rain meaning it at least drizzled or something and kept up Seattle's gloomy 4th reputation.

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In my lifetime in the NW the 4th of July weekend (not just the day but surrounding days) has, for the most part, not been a summer holiday that you could count on great or even good weather. It's why as I got older I started heading east over the mountains. West side is just really warming up and shaking off the rain while the east is in the high 70's to low 80's with zero rain.

I still do that as I'll be in Idaho for this year's 4th of July.