With 9 Days To Go, November Wettest Month Ever Recorded At Sea-Tac

[hatrack]

Rain hasn't poured from the skies like this in more than 50 years.

On Tuesday — a day that saw lightning, thunder, rain and hail — November 2006 became the wettest month at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport since the National Weather Service began measuring Seattle rainfall there in 1948. And there are still nine days to go before we bid November adieu.

A total of 13.11 inches of rain had fallen as of midnight, beating the old record of 12.92 inches of rain in a single month that was set in January 1953.

In Seattle, rainfall records date back to 1896; rainfall was previously measured at the Federal Building downtown. The all-time record set there — 15.33 inches in December 1933 — will be shattered if a little less than 2.5 inches fall by month's end. This November, "it's just been one system after another with really no break in between," said Dennis D'Amico, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Seattle.

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003442471_rain22m.html

[phantom power]

1. Fine. Just Fine. I'll be off to my Gloomy Place now.

Bouncy or coffy, it's all the same at the bottom of the river. Nobody Minds. Nobody cares. Pathetic, that's what it is.

[TheWraith]

2. My God, rain? In Seattle?

Whatever is the world coming to?

Seriously, isn't this a bit like saying "Driest month ever recorded in Sahara Desert"?