Seattle dry streak ends short of record
Sep 10, 2012, 4:45 AM | Updated: 3:11 pm
A rain shower Sunday night dropped the first measurable moisture since July 23 at Sea-Tac Airport.
“The dry is over. The rain is back,” says KING 5’s Rich Marriot. “We ended that streak of 48 days of rain a little before midnight last night.”
That ended the Seattle area dry stretch at 48 days. That’s the second-longest dry stretch on record for the area.
The record of 51 days was set in the summer of 1951 at Sea-Tac.
Warm dry weather is forecast for Western Washington for the rest of the week.
The front that brought rain to the west side of the Cascades is moving through Eastern Washington without much moisture, but gusty winds could fan wildfires. A red flag warning for wildfire danger covers much of the Inland Northwest until 11 p.m. Monday. Forecasters say winds should decrease Tuesday and dry weather continues the rest of the week.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
