Just some interesting facts (because I just can't work today... Too many small bureaucratic complications that I have to deal with):

Here is a comparison of average temperatures and rainfall between Stillwater and Seattle (from weather.com:



The interesting thing is the rain pattern that is almost inverted. Here it rains during the summer and there during the winter. One important thing that this graph does not show is that they have much more rainy days there than here. When it rains here it's a lot of rain in one day, while there it doesn't rain as hard, but it rains for longer.

And here are the weather facts (most of them you can see in the figure above, though):

Stillwater:
* The average warmest month is July.
* The highest recorded temperature was 115°F in 1936.
* The average coolest month is January.
* The lowest recorded temperature was -18°F in 1996.
* The maximum average precipitation occurs in May.

Seattle:
* July is the average warmest month.
* The highest recorded temperature was 96°F in 1991.
* On average, the coolest month is January.
* The lowest recorded temperature was 11°F in 1989.
* The maximum average precipitation occurs in November.