It's actually really funny, no site on the Olympic Peninsula even touched 4" this month. You'd probably have to summit Mt Olympus to find more rain than Tim!

IDK if it's Tim's specific weather station, but a station in the Cedar Ridge neighborhood in the same basic vicinity as him is reporting 4" on the dot this month. A major outlier relative to the rest of the sound, backed by the nearby Chester Morse site. No wonder he complains so much about the rain! @TT-SEA I'm curious, since you moved up here for the natural beauty, why didn't you move to Sequim? It's the same PNW beauty, but with a nice touch of SoCal flare. Half the precip of Seattle, and less than a fifth of what you currently get every year! And if you need better city access, or want to avoid the marine layer which loves to hug that peninsula, there are plenty of isolated lowland spots along I5 from BLI down to Redding which share the PNW beauty, without sacrificing urban access nor pouring rain on you with extreme prejudice. Why the very rainiest spot you could pick aside from the Hoh Rainforest?

The Ballard area here got about 0.05" from this evening's convergence zone. That makes for a 0.2" final total from this trough, and a 0.5" May total on the dot. Quite a bit drier than normal. I imagine June is going to be wetter than May, making for kind of a backward seasonal progression. The lack of extreme heat even reaching the mid 80s in Seattle has kept things reasonably green though. The brown-out hasn't been nearly as bad as I expected, especially considering the average temps and total precip. I guess extreme heat events are equally as impactful to cold season plants as warm average temps are. Some of the grass fields in Discovery Park, as well as some of the lawn tracts along residential streets, are turning brown, but not to a major extent, barring the most exposed spots. While KSEA's max temp for May was 82F; right around normal for the month, the average high temperature ballooned to a balmy 67.8F; around 2.5F above normal, and good enough for 16th place warmest among an 82 year POR, an upper quintile value. Meanwhile, the airport only recorded 7 days with measurable precip, just over half the normal amount for May. All these figures highlight that May 2026 was a generally sunny, mild month, with stochastic, minimal precip. June's precip pattern, while solidly warmer than normal, but no summer-esque heatwaves (in the Sound.) As for being out in it the weather today was perfect for biking. I got some miles in on the way to see the Backrooms movie with some mates. Surprisingly scary. For a moment I thought I could imagine what Tim must feel like seeing an unforecast convergence zone approaching on radar on a cooler than expected July afternoon.

Low moon angle tonight

500!