There is a lot to the wet October thing, but nobody is ever going to be convinced to change their minds. When the NCDC site is back up I'm going to look up the October precip rankings for the entire Puget Sound Basin and see once and for all how it comes out. All I know is large percentage of my favorites had normal to wet Octobers.

My MTD average is 52.8 which works out to a -3.7 departure so far. For much of the Puget Sound region it has been below normal since September 10.

It won't collapse. And we have already course corrected on some issues. Its a pendulum. You can spend the rest of your life obsessing about it but we aren't going backwards.

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@Front Ranger Some of our wettest Novembers on record have been mild and ridgy. Which is a minor adjustment away from being chilly at sea level with ridging overhead, and very dry. You can not tell me with a straight face that precip alone is a reliable climactic indicator when its response to any given pattern is so sensitive to minor adjustments. It is too random.