October was Wet, What will November Bring?

As I shared at the start of this month, there were signs that October would be wetter than normal. This has proved to be the case, with several fronts bringing rain to our area. 

In the big picture, it was a wet month for much of the West. Here’s the percent of normal rainfall for October 2025, with green, blue and purple colors for above-normal precipitation. 

Zooming in to our area we can see that much of eastern Washington received more rain than normal this month.  It’s interesting to note that much of western Washington was actually drier than normal. 

For those of us with short memories, here’s how October last year looked. 

So the obvious question is: what does this mean for November?  In my previous blog we talked about a weak La Niña for the first half of the wet season, which favored wetter conditions for the first half of winter. 

The Climate Prediction Center outlook for November continues to show that odds are November will lean wetter and mild as well. 

The climate computer models are actually a little more split on this idea of a wet early winter,  tending to focus the wet weather more to our north. 

December looks similar so I won’t bother showing it. By January, the climate models are pointing the wet weather to all of the northern US. 

One thing the computers seem to agree on is that the recent wet weather will continue for at least the first week of November. Rain is expected about every other day starting on Saturday, with a total rainfall possibly around 2” over the next 10 days.