To be clear, you'd rather live in Spokane then the Tri Cities wirh their scant precipitation.
San Diego gets the award for best and most boring weather.
Looks like BLI picked up more than 2" since midnight. Pretty impressive! Down here the rainfall rate peaked at 3.16"/hr, but I only ended up with 0.6" which is less than modeled. We'll see if we can get some heavy showers later in the day.
It’s not even November yet. Way, way, way too early to call which months are going to be big and which will be duds.
Actually, calling duds with any degree of accuracy is impossible, because even if you do it on the last day of the preceding month, the end of the next month is more than two weeks out, and forecast models are basically useless at that range.