A Pause in the Rain
The weather forecast delivered on its promise, with multiple storms bringing rain to the Northwest over the past week. The map below shows the rainfall total for the month so far. Here’s the percentage of normal precipitation that has fallen in the first 6 days on this month. Most of the lower 48 states haven’t seen a drop. But areas north of San Francisco have been wet. Zooming in to the Northwest and including October in our analysis, we can see that the Basin over to Spokane has the largest anomaly compared to normal (that doesn’t mean they have had the most rainfall). Looking specifically at Deer Park, we can see that the airport is more than an inch ahead of normal (3.81” vs a normal of 2.59”). The brown line is normal, while the green line is 2025. Just for comparison, I also plotted 2024 in purple. Last year had a much drier October than this year, but we caught up quickly in November. (If you remember, November 2024 was very wet with a total of 5.75” which is more than twi...