Seattle’s sunny November to pick back up for rest of week
Nov 19, 2019, 3:33 PM
A view of downtown Seattle from the Space Needle. (National Weather Service)
(National Weather Service)
After almost 10 straight days of rain, the Seattle area will once again get an uncommon streak of sunny weather in November.
Seattle approaches record streak of rain-free days
Starting on Nov. 9, Seattle began a streak of near-constant rain culminating on Tuesday, Nov. 19. That date is significant — on average, Nov. 19 is the rainiest day of the whole year in Seattle.
According to the National Weather Service, it’s rained on that date 93 times since records started in the 1890s, or 74 percent of the time.
Fitting there has been 0.29" of rain at Sea-Tac this morning because today is the wettest day of the year in Seattle. Since records started in the 1890s it has rained on Nov. 19th 93 times ( 74% ). Here is a table showing how many times it has rained each day in Seattle. #wawx pic.twitter.com/euI67rWOgY
— NWS Seattle (@NWSSeattle) November 19, 2019
Seattle can expect sunny skies in the days ahead, though, with mostly clear weather in the forecast between late Tuesday and Friday. To top it all off, temperatures will mostly sit in the upper 40s and mid 50s for the rest of the week.
November’s run of dry weather has been far from typical, with the month usually marking the second rainiest of the year in Seattle on average. Oct. 25 kicked off a near-record 14-day dry streak that bled into into the first week of the next month.
Dry weather stalls promise of November snow
According to the National Weather Service, it’s been 43 years since there’s been no measurable rainfall in the first week of November in Seattle. In total, there had been just three other years when that happened: 1976, 1957, and 1952.
