Statistical rainiest day of the year lives up to billing
For those who follow the Seattle weather calendar, rain Monday should not have been a surprise.
November 19 is statistically the most likely day to have rain in Seattle, as it has rained a whopping 88 times in the past 119 years, according to this chart.
Make that 89 out of 120.
No other day on that chart is even close (second-wettest is 81 times on Dec. 29). What's even more amazing about the gravitation of rain to this date is that the other dates surrounding the 19th have "only" had rain about 65 times -- about 20 percent less.
But to give an idea of how wet Monday was, in all those 88 times it's rained before on this date, it's never rained this much. Through 10 a.m., Seattle had already set its daily rainfall record with 1.48" of rain, breaking the old record of 1.23" set in 1962, and the rain was still coming down.
About 6:55 or so I saw a large flash light up the clouds to my south west. Looked like lightning, no thunder. Any body else see anything?
 @Boilingfrog Yeah! The NWS released a short term forecast for two thunderstorms that produced lightning and moved NE through about Auburn...it was a pretty long line of heavy rain so you could have seen it anywhere on there. The north sound also saw a few lightning strikes...one over the water and more closer to the foot hills.Â
 @windtreeman  @Boilingfrog We saw it too! Thanks! We also saw the blue/green meteor streak over us, the flash last night was just out of the corner of my eye, we were wondering..
 @windtreeman Thanx!
To connect the dots, climate change is causing alot more intense rainfalls because a warmer atmosphere holds more water.Â
Horrible weather!
Looks like we will be getting a large chunk of November's total rainfall in just 24 hours. I love it.