You can bet that global warming is the result of all the rain. From the AP.
Soggy Seattle has broken another rainfall record, and Portland is inching closer to smashing its own mark.
Seattle measured 44.7 inches of rain between October and April, making it the wettest such period since records began in 1895, the National Weather Service in Seattle said.
It marks the second year in a row that the city has topped the historic rainfall record for that period.
With several days left to go this month, this year’s record will likely be padded some more, said Mike McFarland, a meteorologist with the service in Seattle.
“This has been a terrible winter. It was just wet. There’s no way around that,” he said Tuesday.
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Portland residents are weathering a winter that’s similarly bleak.
The National Weather Service has measured 45.5 inches of rain at Portland International Airport since Oct. 1, making it the second-wettest winter in the city in more than 75 years of record-keeping.
The city has also had the most days of rain ever, with 145 days of the wet stuff since Oct. 1, said Colby Neuman, a meteorologist for the agency in Portland. This year’s February was also the wettest on record with 10.356 inches of rain.
Those are numbers Olga Vargas can vouch for. The native of Puerto Rico moved to Portland four years ago and said the typically rainy winters didn’t bother her much – until this year. Mudslides earlier in the winter cut off roads that she uses for her morning commute, she said.