122-Year-Old Puget Sound Rain Record Broken, National Weather Service Says

SEATTLE, WA - Way out on the Olympic Peninsula near Forks, the Quillayute Airport on Sunday measured an amazing amount of rainfall. Over that 24-hour period, 1.23 inches of rain fell at the airport. That's equivalent to more than a foot of snow. That's also a nearly 30-year record for Quillayute.

That amazing event at Quillayute provides important context for a local rain record we just broke: the National Weather Service says that the Seattle area has measured nearly 45 inches of rain between October and April - that's officially the wettest seven-month stretch on record.

Sunday was a particularly monsoon-like day around Puget Sound. A band of heavy rain socked the area south of Seattle just after 5 p.m. Here are some of the local totals from Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.

• Bellevue - 0.51 inches
• Bonney Lake - 0.53 inches
• Edmonds - 0.20 inches
• Enumclaw - 0.27 inches
• Gig Harbor - 0.44 inches
• Joint Base Lewis-McChord - 0.22 inches
• Redmond - 0.25 inches
• Sammamish - 0.32 inches
• Seattle (Rainier Valley) - 0.44 inches
• Seattle (Green Lake) - 0.25 inches
• Woodinville - 0.25 inches

That's not all: there's an atmospheric river pointed at Puget Sound this week. Check out the week-ahead forecast here.

Image via National Weather Service