There were puddles on my street, yet Seattle’s dry streak officially lives on?!?

SEATTLE – For many in the Puget Sound area, Tuesday morning there was a sight they hadn’t seen in over a month: puddles. Drops on window. Things that fall from the sky and get your hair wet if you let them. A weak low pressure valley was juicing the ocean cloud layer (it was 2,000 to 3,000 feet thick!) It was literally a sight sore for many, especially if you kept your eyes open while looking up at the sky. Some stations measured 0.01 to 0.04 inches of rain. Some along the King-Snohomish County line measured up to 0.10 inches according to CoCoRahs data! That whole “it’s been 35 days without rain in Seattle” story is dead now, isn’t it? Not correct. Official data is held at Sea-Tac Airport, and although it drizzled there for a few hours Tuesday morning, there was only a “trace” of precipitation – not enough to measure. This dry streak we tracked consists of consecutive days with no measurable rain – meaning it had to be 0.01 inches. While many spots got that and more, Sea-Tac didn’t. Keep going. It is now 36 days and it is counted. Even when your own neighborhood streak ended.

The mild weather persists around Puget Sound

Q13 News Meteorologist MJ McDermott has mild forecast for West Washington. And that 36-day streak now has free rein to run for a few more days as we head into the statistically driest time of the year. The last week of July and the first week of August it rains in Seattle about as often as someone orders a coffee with just one adjective. So this dry streak could stretch into the 40s, if not the 50s, with no rain in sight. The record is 55 days, which were set in the summer of 2017, although after the streak ended on August 12 there were another 35 dry days for an impressive 90 out of 91 days with no rain. Let’s not try to compare that.