[Right Wing Professor]

Like a guillotine blade, darkness fell at 5 in the afternoon. It was the pitiless annual reminder that by midwinter, there would barely be eight hours of daylight, almost all of it sponged up by thick blankets of concrete-colored clouds that, on average, squat over Seattle 226 days a year.

Dublin, where I grew up, has 6 hours daylight in midwinter; and as for clouds, no one does overcast like Ireland. And yet, how often do you hear the Irish whining?

[BunnySlippers]

But don't they have outrageously high rates of alcoholism and suicide?

[Annie5622]

could be why they drink all the time? HAHAHAH

[Tribune7]

The mistake Seattle is making is fighting the gloom with coffee.