In Seattle, we say that on October 22 if you hold out a rock and it floats away into the sky, we will have a sunny and dry winter. If it drops to the ground, we will have a rainy winter with overcast skies almost every day.

The big "stone drop day" celebration hasn't quite reached the Groundhog Day level of national news coverage, but we keep hoping.

 

 

The above is for Vaal's joke and for Mike's Stone Drop Day