Warm and clear. Our most fog-free month. Our warmest month. Nothing in the yards and gardens wants to quit. The fauna, the flora, they just keep going as the light gets shorter, the dark gets longer, the world cools toward what even here we call winter.
Meanwhile, up in Oregon….
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RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OREGON
1125 AM PDT SUN SEP 29 2013
…HISTORIC SEPTEMBER RAINFALL OCCURRING IN ASTORIA…
AS OF 11 AM THIS MORNING…OVER 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN ON ASTORIA AIRPORT THIS WEEKEND. THIS RAINFALL HAS SHATTERED NUMEROUS SEPTEMBER RECORDS…REMARKABLE CONSIDERING THAT RECORDS HAVE BEEN KEPT IN ASTORIA SINCE 1890.
RAINFALL RECORDS BROKEN IN ASTORIA
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1. ALL-TIME WETTEST SEPTEMBER ON RECORD…
1. SEP 2013……… 9.70 INCHES AND COUNTING.
2. SEP 1906……… 8.66 INCHES.
3. SEP 1920……… 8.55 INCHES.
4. SEP 1905……… 7.38 INCHES.
2. WETTEST SEPTEMBER DAY ON RECORD…
1. SEP 28 2013…… 3.56 INCHES.
2. SEP 16 1997…… 2.67 INCHES.
3. SEP 30 1953…… 2.41 INCHES.
4. SEP 13 1935…… 2.27 INCHES.
3. WETTEST 2-DAY TOTAL FOR SEPTEMBER…TOP 2 NOW SET IN 2013.
1. SEP 28-29 2013… 5.16 INCHES AND COUNTING.
2. SEP 27-28 2013… 4.55 INCHES.
3. SEP 3-4 1913….. 3.46 INCHES.
4. SEP 16-17 1997… 3.42 INCHES.
4. WETTEST 3-DAY TOTAL FOR SEPTEMBER…
1. SEP 27-29 2013… 6.15 INCHES AND COUNTING.
2. SEP 2-4 1913….. 4.31 INCHES.
3. SEP 15-17 1997… 4.16 INCHES.
WITH MORE HEAVY RAIN ON THE WAY…SIMILAR RECORDS MAY FALL AT OTHER CLIMATE SITES ACROSS SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON AND NORTHWEST OREGON. AS TIME PERMITS WE WILL SIFT THROUGH THE DATA AND ISSUE UPDATED RECORD REPORTS AS NECESSARY.
Wow. That Oregon-Cal tilt was certainly a wet one, but I didn’t realize that the rain was so much out of the ordinary elsewhere. Thom said it was being called a typhoon. Is this storm the remains of an eastern Pacific tropical storm? We’ve seen that down here, and it is remarkable when it happens.
Local weather guy Mark Nelsen this morning around 9 am: “the remnants of Typhoon Pabuk have made it all the way across the Pacific and what’s left will spin up into a powerful low pressure center the next 12 hours.” Story of the day will be wind, though mostly north of here: http://1.usa.gov/15EbiKU