Wrong

Actually on the average Vancouver gets less rain and more sunshine from May through October than other major Canadian city except Edmonton.

But don't tell anybody or they will all want to move here!!!

June

June is nearly always awful, after May. But the past two Mays have been crap.

weather or not

The weather in Canada as a person who's family came here in 1625.Many people followed the beaver west.We were always asking first nation's how is the weather and learned the skills of survival.So on we move closer to the big rain in BC.We are always sure to ask the first Nation's people about the weather,I guess we still are,most of us just do not learn the skills taught many years ago! we just watch it on TV

as a mountaineer

read any mountain guide book - June is always a time when the weather is most un-predictable and often a large expedition is best left until July. Bottom line, it always rains in June, sometimes more sometimes less. We are (fortunately) graced with the lot of cold and wet low pressure systems, well through June, normally not into July. Lets revisit this topic in two weeks time.

Get over your lotus land bs

"Say it one more time and I'll put you on a slow bus back to Ontario".

Really?? Maybe you should get over the fact that people living here WILL always complain about the weather because it IS a drag. The last couple of years have been especially sun-less. That doesn't mean those who complain don't like other aspects of living in BC, but we're not all going to run around pretending it's the BPOE because it isn't.

This:
"The kind of glory Lotusland myths are conjured from by those who suffer through never-ending winters in the rest of Canada."

Give me a break. Ontario winters are cold but dry, the sky is blue and the sun shines so brightly you need to wear sunglasses in mid-Dec. Maybe when you stop acting like BC is better than the rest of Canada you won't be so offended when you hear people whine about Raincover!

Remember, it rains on everyone, including those you don't like

Even on Stephen Harper. Especially on him. Old Rubbermaid himself gets wet too.

Small story...

A few years ago, sitting on the train from PGeorge to PRupert, across the aisle a kid, six or seven years old, and her Dad!
"Daddy, why does it always rain in Prince Rupert?"
"Not always, - only when you're awake."

Right on Fii!

There are several great things about B.C. but there are a lot of downsides, West Coast weather being one of them, not to mention the cost of living.
My complaint: the cold evenings when a fire of winter are required, or else if you prefer to waste energy, a heat lamp. Then there's the endless gloomy days ....
Canada is a big place full of beautiful spots. B.C. certainly doesn't have a monopoly. B.C.'ers superiority complex gets a bit tiresome.

June Monsoon

I love June! There is something fantastic about the lush fullness of June that makes it special.

Afternoons of heavy brooding clouds display their deep moody character while cloaking the mountains and valley walls. Then in a sudden burst of sunshine the dark clouds dissipate into thick white tendrils of mist that rise up and slither into the canopy of the heavy wet forests.

June dawns bring the melodious orchestra of song birds through my window in front of the early rains of the day that play a soft and gentle percussion on my metal roof.

Wild huckleberries grow into enormous juicy globes of goodness and the cottonwood trees release their ethereal seeds that float on the wind and the water. I love June!

cool showers n clouds in lotusland

here we are in july with no beach weather to date this year. with the long days the grass grows nonstop like hay in the metropolis. whatever happened to global warming anyways?? an inconvenient myth to get away from fossil fuels and go nuclear fukushima!

We are so blessed.

Vancouver is in a temperate rain forest and it is one of the reasons why I moved here. I love the fact we have an abundance of water but why we do not celebrate it is beyond my understanding. We need a Vancouver designed Water World located in English Bay that celebrates all the joys and wonder of water HOH, H2O,agua, or any other name you give it. We need to celebrate water - we are the lucky ones on this planet. Happy Canada Day to one and all. Thanks Tyee for being here on this special day. You can't always get what you WANY but if you live in Canada, you can get what you NEED.

Let it rain on Harper:)

Granville is right. Let it rain on Harper! His brain's already well-sogged, according to some(his wife? Or Ottawa Citizen?); his soul (if any) is Koch-Bros/FraserInstapuke-sogged; but he never had a heart to sog, IMHO.

Honest, 'sog' is a word. Well, it could be...;)

"back to Ontario?"

D'Auria implies that we all come from Ontario. Well, some of us were always in Canada and absorbed immigrant DNA before leaving the Maritimes for Quebec, then Ontario, then Manitoba, etc.,a few centuries before finally settling in BC and the extreme West Coast--further west and north than overcrowded and mostly foreign Vancouver. Those are the Canucks pre 1850. The trouble is, most of the newcomers to Canada since have stubbornly refused to assimilate in any meaningful way. Worse, they mostly live within 100 miles of the American border. They have no concept of Canada and little respect for the land. They have "developed" all over the place and bred like rabbits. They think it's perfectly OK to cross-border shop or shop in WalMarts. They never once consider that the raw material we send off to foreign places takes our jobs with it--not to mention costing a ton more in fuel and pollution when they ship the manufactured goods we used to make ourselves, only better and longer-lasting. Then they charge us more for that stuff. How can that make economical sense? There's not a shred of compassion for those enslaved offshore workers who make the goods, either. Every time people shop at Walmart, they are saying it's OK to enslave others, while unemploying our own.

So many --~37%-- believe Harper's BS that if we pay taxes to give rich people billions in grants plus billions more in tax breaks, they will "create" wealth for the rest of us. But the truth is that the planet's bounty is finite; that all the wealth that ever there was or ever will be was all there before the first human came on the scene. Wealth cannot be created--only taken. In other words, profit can only come from the costs of razing the environment we all share; taken from under-paying other people for their labour; from over-charging customers all along the line; from the slaughter of other species; and from our grandchildren's future (if any).

Junuary

the issue is not that it rains in June in Vancouver because it definitely does. The issue is that June also has the longest days and we dont get the benefit of that when we see damp dreary days but more important than all of that is the past 2-3 years of non-spring; non-summer and non-fall. My husband works in an industry that is absolutely weather dependent. To work, he requires not one solitary dry day but at least several in a row.And to have the coldest June on record is definitely nothing to be proud of. It is the sunshine or at least lack of moisture that depresses and no; I dont want the heat and humidity of the east - 100 degrees with 100% humidity and I know first hand what that is like. I lived there for at least half of my life.

And having to watch the crap that Harper is subjecting us to just makes the weather that much greater a topic of conversation.

Unhappy blueberry farmers

Proof last month was a wetter June than usual:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/07/02/bc-blueberry-farmers-weather.html