The weather loophole keeping this city sunny
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the sun doesn't shine on Saint Petersburg, Florida.
This is a newspaper ad from 1910,
and it made a promise, that they called the Sunshine Offer.
The sunshine offer said that any time
the sun failed to come out, if you had a subscription, you were a customer,
you were a stranger, It didn't matter.
You would get the next day's newspaper for free.
They printed this promise in their papers and made postcards
advertising this deal.
This bet against bad weather, advertising a Sunshine City
and this reputation persists to this day.
Local Reddit threads question
the mysterious and unsettling lack of rain,
and the city even holds the Guinness World
Record for the longest stretch of consecutive sunny days,
at 768 during the late 1960s.
Here's the thing, though:
today it's pretty easy to find out that, in the summertime,
Saint Pete gets more rain than Seattle,
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Key Vocabulary (13)
Used to refer to the person or people that the speaker is addressing. It is the second-person pronoun used for both singular and plural subjects and objects.
The invisible mixture of gases that surrounds the Earth and which humans and animals breathe. It also refers to the open space above the ground or the general atmosphere of a place.
This word describes weather or a place that is filled with bright light from the sun. It is used to talk about clear skies and pleasant, light-filled conditions.
"It's a beautiful sunny day today!"
Rain is water that falls from clouds in the sky in small drops. It is a natural weather event that provides water for plants and fills rivers and lakes.
"The rain is important."
The sun is the large, bright star at the center of our solar system that provides light and heat to Earth. It appears in the sky during the day and is responsible for the daylight we experience.
"The sun is important."
Grammar in This Video
"Saint Pete gets more rain than Seattle"
"So how can both things be true?"
"They printed this promise in their papers and made postcards"
"This video is going to try to explain"
"Saint Pete gets more rain than Seattle"
"just as good for a night out as it is for museum day"
"A downtown that's just as good"
"if you had a subscription... you would get the next day's newspaper for free"
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