Weather Eye: Prepare for dry start to Halloween with rain after dark

I know there is one category of people that are getting tired of all this rain. Can you guess? If you drive a vehicle you know the answer. Commuters!

We had heavy rain in the morning commute yesterday, a decent break in the rain mid-day and more heavy rain for the afternoon commute.

Already this October is the wettest ever for much of western Washington. And we have a few days left to add to it, although I think we are done with the excessive heavy rainfall. Showers will end by today but more rain is slated to arrive Friday night with showers Saturday and Sunday.

Halloween may be dry to start but another weather system will cast its dark shadow upon us by the afternoon and rain begins after dark. So we may escape rain early, but as we always chat about here at the Weather Eye, have a plan B or least protection against the droplets from the skies.

One note of interest with the upcoming weather, the air mass will cool some with our overnight lows back in the 40s where they belong and highs in the 50s. The 60s may be gone for a while. This doesn’t mean snow levels will drop a great deal but the snow level will hover near the timberline level.

The unrelenting rain has pushed our total to 7.50 inches as of late Wednesday surpassing what was our previous wettest month for 2016, January with 7.03 inches.

So what can we expect for November? November can be one of our wettest months and the outlook at least for the first ten days of November calls for more mild and rainy weather.

Last October we had 3.25 inches of rain, just about average, but in 2014, 6.03 inches fell in the rain bucket. If we continue with the rain through the 31st we will have over 8 inches of rain, one for the record books.

Stay dry and safe and we will chat one more time this month on Sunday.

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Reach him at http://patricktimm.com.

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