Joe's remark about hoping for rain reminded me of an exchange I overheard on the bus one day some years ago.

There was a 30ish woman complaining to a young tourist couple about the weather in Juneau, Alaska. As soon as her husband's Coast Guard deployment is up, they're out of here, she said. There are no decent shops and it's expensive and it never is warm and it rains all the time, she said.

She paused. Where are you from, she asked.

San Diego.

Ah, you have sun!

Very quietly, the young man responded, But we have no water.