BELLINGHAM, Wash. — A storm brought record-breaking rainfall to the Bellingham area and drenched the rest of Puget Sound over the weekend.
Here’s how much rain fell across the region.
Bellingham saw the most rain among the lowland gauges, recording 2.12 inches of rain on Sunday. Bellingham also shattered the previous daily rainfall record of 1.75 inches set in 1985.
KING 5 Senior Meteorologist Rich Marriott said the culprit was a wet weather system with a cell that sat over Bellingham on Saturday night, dumping rainfall. The city recorded 2.32 inches of rainfall within a six-hour period overnight.
“That’s a lot in that short period of time,” Marriott said.
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The previous weekend, Bellingham broke another single-day rain record with 1.97 inches of rain. Existing wet conditions combined with this weekend’s rainfall contributed to a landslide that blocked Interstate 5 in Bellingham for hours on Sunday. Two vehicles were caught in the slide.
Although it was wet across the rest of the Puget Sound region, the totals were not as impressive as Bellingham. Here are the rain totals for other areas on Saturday and Sunday combined:
- Seattle-Tacoma International Airport: 0.85 inches
- Paine Field in Everett: 0.87 inches
- Olympia: 0.92 inches
- Hoquiam: 1.45 inches
Sunday was the wettest day of the month so far for the locations above but it was not enough to catch up to the amount of rainfall we normally see by this point in October. All locations are trailing where we typically are as of Sunday.
