Warm and Wet to end Summer

September was warm a few degrees above average at both ends of the day. It was also rather wet offering up the first "real" rainfall in months. Once daily record high for my station was posted and a daily record 'warm' overnight low as well. There were no freakish heat waves and no real pre-autumn freezes, just a typical September with a bit warmer temps and double the normal precipitation.

The month gave us us a maximum high of 87.5º late enough in the month to be a daily record. That was the 24th. The warmest overnight low was a measure of 61.9º on the 8th. The chilliest temps were a morning low of 46.7º on the 16th, rather seasonable really and a mild afternoon high of only 61.3º on the 28th. September delivered 11 sunny days, 7 rainy days, and 11 days above 80º. 

The rain gauge was busy last month. although only 7 days were wet, that is a fair bit for September and a few of those days were soggy enough to produce more than a half inch. The wettest day was the 19th when God started thinking about Noah again... 1.68 inches in the bucket. The total rainfall for the month was a more October like 4.20 inches. Three days went over 0.5 inch including the 28th which nearly hit an inch at 0.93. 4 days had more than 1/4 inch. 

The High Cascades received their first dusting of snow during first wave of storms. Mt Hood and Mt Adams are wearing a winter coat proudly and even St Helens saw the rim dusted. Autumn is here and it feels like we might actually get some rain this season. I hope so, we have been below normal for quite some time. 

October should slide quickly from mild and comfortable to chilly by Halloween. That tends to be the case as Autumn settles in and our sweaters come out of the closet. Soak it up my friends, soak it up.