Record Rain

With ten days to go, the Seattle area has had record rainfall for meteorological winter for the months of December through February with just under 23 inches of rain.   With 10 mostly dry days in the forecast, that has broken the old record set in 1999 by a few hundredths of an inch.  

The rain mostly came in intermittent storms with a break in-between the storms or a lowering of the freezing level that kept snow in the mountains for a few days.   There was little or no snow in the lowlands and no extreme flooding or landslides.   The snow pack depth is at 102% of normal.  A bonus was seemingly less than usual of the Seattle mist that does not put down precipitation but makes it dark, gray and wet outside for days and weeks at a time.

I am grateful for lots of rain with a relatively mild rate of natural disaster action.  That is fantastically better than the extremes of drought or heavy flooding.