Saturday was wettest September day on record

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Saturday was wettest September day on record



Getting an inch and a half of rain in November isn't too unusual, but in September? It's record breaking.

Seattle recorded 1.71" of rain on Saturday, not only nearly doubling the daily rainfall record of 0.83" but setting an all-time record for wettest September day in Sea-Tac history, which goes back to 1948.

The old record was 1.65" set twice on Sept. 22, 1978 and Sept. 30, 1953.



Rainfall totals were even more impressive further south and west where 2.5" of rain was reported in parts of Pierce and southern King County and nearly 3 inches fell in Olympia.

Perhaps most impressively, a spotter near Potlatch in Mason County reported an estimated 7 inches of rain -- an estimate because that's all the gauge could hold and it overflowed.

Here is a chart of rainfall totals from 7 am Saturday to 7am Sunday, courtesy of the CoCoRahs volunteer network:



And here are some other rain reports from National Weather Service spotter reports:

Potlatch: 7.00"+
Grand Mound: 3.58"
Napavine: 2.60"
Federal Way: 2.48"

For the entire month, Seattle is now sitting at 4.80 inches through Sunday morning, currently tied for 3rd wettest on record:

1) 5.95 - 1978
2) 5.57 - 1969
3) 4.80 - 2010
3) 4.80 - 2010

We'll easily get into 3rd by itself Sunday with eyes on No. 2 by the end of the day.

source: Saturday was wettest September day on record | Weather Blog | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KOMO News

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Starting to see a trend yet?? Calgary, Toronto, UK, Australia, Denver and Seattle... It's called Climate Change.
 
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B00Mer said:
Saturday was wettest September day on record

Starting to see a trend yet?? Calgary, Toronto, UK, Australia, Denver and Seattle... It's called Climate Change.
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It hasn't stopped raining here since the beginning of September. My motorcycle is getting lonely.
 
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Starting to see a trend yet?? Calgary, Toronto, UK, Australia, Denver and Seattle... It's called Climate Change.
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No, it isn't. It's called bad weather.

And don't forget, this isn't the first time the rainfall record has been broken. The old record was 1.65" set twice on Sept. 22, 1978 and Sept. 30, 1953. Was that caused by "climate change" too?
 
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Blackleaf said:
No, it isn't. It's called bad weather.

And don't forget, this isn't the first time the rainfall record has been broken. The old record was 1.65" set twice on Sept. 22, 1978 and Sept. 30, 1953. Was that caused by "climate change" too?
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Hear, hear. The most annoying thing about the climate change debate is that the fools on the ends of the spectrum insist that every snowfall "proves" there is no climate change, or that every warm day "proves" there is.
 
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Tecumsehsbones;1805847]Hear, hear. The most annoying thing about the climate change debate is that the fools on the ends of the spectrum insist that every snowfall "proves" there is no climate change, or that every warm day "proves" there is.
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"Unusual" weather events have been happening for millennia. It's not a recent thing, as the Warmists believe. People have recorded unusual weather events for ages.

Millions of people in Britain today will remember the freezing winter of 1962-63, one of the coldest winters on record in Britain (only the winter of 1683-84 has been colder), when freezing winds from Russia blew into Britain. In December 1962 vasts swathes of the country were under 20 feet of snow, blocking roads and railways, stranding villagers and bringing down powerlines. The freezing temperatures meant areas were under snow-cover for two months.

January 1963 was the coldest month in Britain since January 1814. The sea froze up to a mile out in some places. The sea froze FOUR miles out to sea from Dunkirk (around 20 miles from Britain), and BBC television news expressed a fear that the Strait of Dover would freeze across completely! Most of the Thames froze over, except in central London where the hot effluent from two thermal power stations - Bankside and Battersea - prevented it from doing so. The ice was thick enough in some places that people were skating on it, and on 22nd January a car was driven across the frozen Thames at Oxford. However, there were no Frost Fairs held on the frozen Thames as there used to be up until the early 19th century.

But not one person back then blamed it all on "unusual weather as a result of climate change". The cold winter of 1962-63 WASN'T caused by climate change, it was a completely natural event - but if this winter were to be similarly cold, it won't be long before the Warmists all start blaming it on "climate change".


Deep snow near Burrow-with-Burrow, 17 miles from Lancaster, in Lancashire, England, January 1963. But nobody blamed it on "climate change"



Snow in Lancashire, January 1963
 
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"Unusual" weather events have been happening for millennia. It's not a recent thing, as the Warmists believe. People have recorded unusual weather events for ages.
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I do not share your complacency about global warming, but anyone who speaks with perfect confidence about a system as complex and poorly understood as planetary climate is kidding himself.
 
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Blackleaf said:
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"Unusual" weather events have been happening for millennia. It's not a recent thing, as the Warmists believe. People have recorded unusual weather events for ages.

Millions of people in Britain today will remember the freezing winter of 1962-63, one of the coldest winters on record in Britain (only the winter of 1683-84 has been colder), when freezing winds from Russia blew into Britain. In December 1962 vasts swathes of the country were under 20 feet of snow, blocking roads and railways, stranding villagers and bringing down powerlines. The freezing temperatures meant areas were under snow-cover for two months.

January 1963 was the coldest month in Britain since January 1814. The sea froze up to a mile out in some places. The sea froze FOUR miles out to sea from Dunkirk (around 20 miles from Britain), and BBC television news expressed a fear that the Strait of Dover would freeze across completely! Most of the Thames froze over, except in central London where the hot effluent from two thermal power stations - Bankside and Battersea - prevented it from doing so. The ice was thick enough in some places that people were skating on it, and on 22nd January a car was driven across the frozen Thames at Oxford. However, there were no Frost Fairs held on the frozen Thames as there used to be up until the early 19th century.

But not one person back then blamed it all on "unusual weather as a result of climate change". The cold winter of 1962-63 WASN'T caused by climate change, it was a completely natural event - but if this winter were to be similarly cold, it won't be long before the Warmists all start blaming it on "climate change".


Deep snow near Burrow-with-Burrow, 17 miles from Lancaster, in Lancashire, England, January 1963. But nobody blamed it on "climate change"



Snow in Lancashire, January 1963
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I remember the 60's well. That was when the ice age was coming, and few were denying it.
 
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No rain here.

Besides... when will the alarmist start following their own statements that weather is not climate?
 
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No rain here.

Besides... when will the alarmist start following their own statements that weather is not climate?
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Same time the deniers follow the same.

Why is the conversation always driven by the sad, foolish, pathetic true believers on both ends, for whom their selected dogma is just that, religious dogma, belief without understanding?
 
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Not that much more than the record. Sounds like every now and again you get deluges in September. It's not Climate Change. It's weather.
 
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