Fun with climate data: divergent rainfall totals

After the deluge, at 23.09 inches, we are still well below normal in rainfall for the calendar year, according to measurement at the National Weather Service forecast office at Sand Point in Seattle. But at Sea-Tac Airport, the total for the year (35.44 inches) is above normal after yesterday's rain.

Temperature and precipitation in Quillayute, Wash.

Temperature and precipitation in Quillayute, Wash.

After the deluge, at 23.09 inches, we are still well below normal precipitation for the calendar year, according to measurement at the National Weather Service forecast office at Sand Point in Seattle. But at Sea-Tac Airport, the total for the year (35.44 inches) is above normal after yesterday's rain. Down in Olympia, still slightly below normal (42.89 inches) in a consistently dry year. And in Quillayute on the Olympic Peninsula, where they've been drenched even more than usual all year, the rainfall total is well above normal. With a month to go, they've just passed the normal year total, at 100.37 inches.

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Chuck Taylor is formerly editor of Crosscut. He has also worked for The Seattle Times and Seattle Weekly, and now blogs at Seattle Post-Times. You can reach him at chuck.taylor@newsdex.net.

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