We Aren’t ‘Weather Wimps.’ Seattle Just Isn’t Prepared for Deep Heat. Why Would It Be?

Carl Goodwin, manager of Seattle Sausage, takes a water break while selling bottles of water to baseball fans leaving the Mariners game on June 23, 2021. Amanda Snyder/The Seattle Times/TNS

SEATTLE—Sir Mix-a-Lot has a couple of choice words for the folks out there in social media land calling Seattleites weather wimps.

“Many here don’t have AC … dumb (expletive),” said the Seattle native who’s best known for his rap hit “Baby Got Back.”