Pacific Northwest Rainfall

[Cumulonimbus]

Hi:

Looks like fall is here. An unofficial report from the west side of Olympic Peninsula reported 14 inches of rain in 22 hours yesterday. That should put a dent in the dry weather out here. Rains have tapered off for now but more is on the way.

Alex

[Cumulonimbus]

Well....it looks like only 4 inches of rainfall occurred...not 14. Looks wet though for the week ahead.

[tropicana]

Just north of the border.... Victoria BC recorded 85mm of rain on Oct 16th...and a further 33mm on Oct 17th. Alot of flooding in and around the south coastal areas of Bristish columbia from the same system. Blame it on the *Pineapple Express*

[StormBird]

And this in from the National Weather Service:

RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
525 PM PDT MON OCT 20 2003

...SEATTLE RECORDS WETTEST DAY IN HISTORY...

AS OF 525 PM PDT...SEA-TAC AIRPORT HAD RECORDED ITS WETTEST DAY
IN HISTORY. THE DAILY PRECIPITATION TOTAL AS OF 525 PM WAS
3.48 INCHES. THIS EXCEDES THE ALL-TIME DAILY PRECIPITATION RECORD
TOTAL WHICH WAS 3.41 INCHES ON NOVEMBER 20TH 1959.


And it's still raining!

[Stormsfury]

And this in from the National Weather Service:

RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
525 PM PDT MON OCT 20 2003

...SEATTLE RECORDS WETTEST DAY IN HISTORY...

AS OF 525 PM PDT...SEA-TAC AIRPORT HAD RECORDED ITS WETTEST DAY
IN HISTORY. THE DAILY PRECIPITATION TOTAL AS OF 525 PM WAS
3.48 INCHES. THIS EXCEDES THE ALL-TIME DAILY PRECIPITATION RECORD
TOTAL WHICH WAS 3.41 INCHES ON NOVEMBER 20TH 1959.


And it's still raining!

That record seems quite shocking to me comparatively speaking considering some of the impressive rainfall totals that sometimes occur in the PAC NW especially when the "Pineapple Express" is involved.

SF

[Cumulonimbus]

And is it ever. I live just east of Seattle in a city called Newcastle. Since midnight my weather station has recorded 3.77 to 8pm local time...about a half hour ago. It continues to rain moderately with .12 picked up since 8pm. Most roads have standing water on them some with some roads closed. The Skagit River north of Seattle is predicting a 40 foot crest by tomorrow morning with mandatory evacuations in progress. And to have all of this happening and be 65 degrees in mid-late October is really different. Normally an event like this occurs in November or December. I am sure Seattle will pass the 4 inch mark for the date. Rainfall over a foot has occurred in Bremerton and Shelton both southwest of Seattle. This is one storm that will go down in the record books. Glad there wasn't any snowpack or the damage would be really bad.
Weekend ahead looks very dry with a big ridge over us tho so it should dry out which will help with the flooding.