November is climatically our wettest month of the year. It always feels like a deluge of rain falling, coming on the heels of our summer drought. This year we had one big rainfall day in May and another in October, but otherwise essentially no precipitation for 6 months. This is dryer than usual — but it’s what global climate change is predicted to be the norm in the PNW going forward. Our total precip is expected to rise a few percent, however it will fall more heavily in fewer months, and as rain rather than snow.
It’s hard to remember how parched it was here just a short time ago. We were worrying about wildfires and trees dying from drought. Now there’s mud, flooding and branches falling in the wind.
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The autumn rainstorms have arrived in the Pacific Northwest.
I go out walking anyway, unless there’s a gale wind as well. I can share some signs of damp from my recents walks in the rain:
The storm systems roll through one after the next. In between we usually see light of some kind filtering through the clouds for a bit.
What’s autumn like in your part of the world? Is it unusual this year?
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