
 
 Miss Seattle insists it was the weather, not the city, that prompted her to make some suddenly controversial comments about the city. (Mynorthwest.com staff) 
 
 
 
 Miss Seattle says it was the weather, not the city she was criticizing in a series of tweets complaining about Seattle. 
 
 A controversy erupted over the weekend when it was learned Jean-Sun Hannah Ahn had tweeted "Ugh can't stand cold rainy Seattle and the annoying people" back in December. 
 
 She was awarded the crown Saturday night. 
 
 "I had actually just moved back from Arizona and it was a transitional period for me," the former Miss Phoenix said in an interview on the Dori Monson Show. 
 
 Ahn told Dori she was having a tough time, missing friends and struggling with the cold wet weather after four years of continuous sunshine. 
 
 "I think I was just kind of in that down mode and it was a period...it was a culture shock to be back in Seattle," said the Seattle native. 
 
 While the comments were critical of her home town, fellow native Dori sympathizes, and insists we've all complained about the weather at some point. 
 
 "This controversy struck me as very silly because I grew up here in Seattle and I don't know if anybody complains more about Seattle than me," Dori said. 
 
 Ahn insists she has always loved Seattle and is happy to be home. 
 
 "These past couple of months have just been incredible and the support and the people and reconnected with so many different friends and met so many new people." 
 
 Ahn says she realizes why people would be upset and she's embarrassed to bring any bad press to the organization, but wishes the reporter who broke the story (our own Linda Thomas, The News Chick) hadn't called her out quite so publicly. 
 
 "I was somewhat hurt because she almost didn't seem to realize I worked so hard to get to where I was." 
 
 And she learned a very valuable lesson. 
 
 "I now have learned my lesson the hard way that I will vent to someone that I will call my friends or text them if I'm feeling down or want to complain about something." 
 
 Unlike the rest of us, who can and will continue complaining frequently about the weather and plenty of other annoying things in our area. 
 
 New Miss Seattle was 'annoyed' with us ||||| Nineteen beautiful, young women competed for the title of Miss Seattle over the weekend. The winner is Jean-Sun Hannah Ahn, a violinist and former Miss Phoenix. 
 
 She will compete in the Miss Washington Pageant this summer. Maybe by then she'll enjoy the weather because she wasn't happy with the city, or Seattle residents, in December. 
 
 She tweeted, "Ugh can't stand cold rainy Seattle and the annoying people." 
 
 On her Twitter feed @MissPhoenix 2010, she frequently uses the word "annoyed," so perhaps it's just her favorite word. There are other unflattering comments on her page too. She should reconsider the way she's uses social media if she wants to be a public figure. The tweets above were from December of 2011. A friend of hers tells me she had not decided to enter the Miss Seattle Scholarship competition at that time. 
 
 UPDATE: 
 
 Miss Seattle apologizes for the tweets, in a comment on this blog. 
 
 "I apologize for the negative connotations towards the city of Seattle and its people or any other postings when I wasn’t in a positive place. Those tweets by no means reflect my actual opinions or views, I was simply having “one of those days” and sincerely apologize to anyone who took those statements offensively," says Ahn. 
 
 She is a Seattle native, and says she truly loves Seattle "with all of my heart and the support these past months in the Seattle community has just been indescribable." 
 
 "I realize now what a mistake it is to post things when your not in a good mood," she writes. 
 
 She deleted several unflattering tweets and renamed her account last night to reflect her new title, @MissSeattle2012. 
 
 Photo by Dave Barksdale, of Depoe Barksdale Studios 
 
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– Jean-Sun Hannah Ahn was crowned Miss Seattle Saturday night, but unfortunately, she forgot to delete this tweet from back in December: "Take me back to az!!! Ugh can't stand cold rainy Seattle and the annoying people." Seattle-dwellers were up in arms after the tweet was discovered by KIRO-FM over the weekend, but Ahn explains to the station that it was the weather, not Seattle itself, she was complaining about. (Another tweet: "Ew I seriously an [sic] hating Seattle right now...") Ahn, a Seattle native, posted the tweets shortly after moving back to the city following four years in Arizona, she explained on the Dori Monson Show. "It was a transitional period for me," said the former Miss Phoenix, adding that it was difficult to get used to all the rain after Arizona's constant sunshine and she was experiencing "culture shock." But, she insists, she is happy to be back in her hometown, and she says in the future she will call or text friends if she wants "to complain about something."