Even though Seattle's famed streak of consecutive days with rain ended at 27 days a week and a half ago, some other cities around here were soldiering on.

Our research showed four cities -- Olympia, Shelton, Forks and Tacoma -- kept their streaks going well into the 30s before finally ending over the past few days.

Olympia and Tacoma's streaks ended Sunday, while Shelton's ended Monday and Forks, the last one to cling to a streak, ended Tuesday.

Both Olympia (35 days of rain) and Tacoma (34 days of rain) broke their records for rain streaks, which were both at 33 set in 1953.

Shelton's streak ended Monday at 36 days (their streak began a day earlier than most other cities), while Forks streak lasted until Tuesday, ending at 36 days as well. They were both short of their records, though, as Shelton had to get to 41 days while Forks still had a ways to go to match their 51-day streak.

Here's a list of how long the streaks got in most places:

While there was, for some reason, a lot of controversy about tying Seattle's streak to Sea-Tac Airport (which is the official reporting station for Seattle), I did some research and found that even the NOAA site at Sand Point in northeast Seattle recorded the identical 27-day streak.

Hey, What About Longview?

After this article was originally published, an astute reader pointed me to a newspaper article in Longview's The Daily News Newspaper (read the article here) claiming that despite no traditional rain over the past few days, that there was enough mist and drizzle in the morning to measure 0.01" of rain and keep their rain streak alive, which they say is up to 38 days.

However, they are using the rain gauge at the Longview Water Treatment plant as their source. While they may indeed have had at least 0.01" of rain over the past 38 days, I'm not sure that counts as an "official" weather measuring site. Longview, as far as weather records are concerned, typically uses the Longview/Kelso Airport, which reported totally dry weather on Jan. 4 and Jan. 24, so their official rainy streak never got going.

How Does This Compare To 1998/99?

With all the rain, the winter of 1998-99 got a lot of attention as those who have lived here long enough certainly remember that soggy stretch in Seattle's history. The official record set then was for 90 days of rain out of 120 days between Nov. 1 and Feb. 28.

It's going to be a very tall order to come close to that record. Through Jan. 24, Seattle has had 57 days of rain since Nov. 1 -- a span of 85 days. So we'd have to have rain on 33 of the next 35 days just to tie the record. The long-range pattern is wet, but not *that* wet.

Other Streaks, Just For Kicks

Amidst all the rain talk, there was some other streaks that sort of slipped under the radar.

For instance, did you know that Seattle has had 37 consecutive cloudy days? It's a streak that remains active through Tuesday and will likely continue through the week.

(Although I'm stumped at how Tuesday counted as a cloudy day. Sure looked sunny to me, but I guess they must have had enough lingering fog at Sea-Tac to count it as cloudy. You can check on how they compute a cloudy day.)

Anyway, I'm not sure if they track records for consecutive cloudy days. I'll see if I can find out.

Wacky Temperature Streak Still Going Too

You might have heard we went 36 consecutive days with temperatures at or below normal in November (the streak went from Nov. 11-Dec. 16).

But then ever since that streak ended on Dec. 17, we've been at or *above* normal. That's a streak of 39 days through Jan. 24.

The long range forecast is back to continued cloudy and wet, so the cloudy streak should continue for a while, and some spots in the Northwest might start another mini rain streak. In the meantime, we are expecting slightly cooler weather for the end of this week, which could finally end the temperature streak.