Scary forecast on tap for Halloween
Oct 31, 2025, 5:03 AM | Updated: 3:17 pm
A child in a Halloween costume stays dry with an umbrella. (Photo: Ruth Hartnup via Flickr Creative Commons)
(Photo: Ruth Hartnup via Flickr Creative Commons)
This Halloween is expected to feature a frighteningly wet forecast for the Puget Sound region.
“It’s going to be a soaker for Halloween and trick-or-treaters,” KIRO Newsradio Meteorologist Ted Beuhner said.
He said another atmospheric river — a relatively long, narrow band of water vapor in the sky — is heading toward western Washington.
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Beuhner does NOT expect the system to be as severe as the storm system that hit the Puget Sound region last weekend.
“This one won’t have nearly as strong winds, but it will be blustery as we go through Friday night into Saturday morning,” he said.
It could cause scattered power outages. And, again, it’ll be wet.
“It looks like the rain is going to start along the coast during the morning and up in the Olympic Peninsula and work its way into the Puget Sound area during the afternoon,” Beuhner explained.
He’s forecasting the rain to start around 3 p.m. and continue throughout the night and into Saturday morning.
The National Weather Service said, over the last 80 years, rain has occurred on Halloween 44 times. That’s about 57% of the time.
It’s a statistic anyone who grew up here experienced in real time as we watched our carefully crafted trick-or-treat bags (paper sacks resplendent with construction paper pumpkins and popsicle stick fences) disintegrate in a downpour, as we buried our costumes under raincoats.
Take heart, trick-or-treaters. You will eventually dry out, and the Snickers and Skittles will taste just as sweet.
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