November 2006

Wow, Soto and Chunlin got engaged today!

But I digress. November 2006 will long be remembered in Seattle as the wettest month on record. At our house, we accumulated 15.52 inches of rain, breaking the old record of 13.16 inches by over two inches. Seattle had similar numbers. That means we averaged over 1/2 inch of rain per day. We had measurable precipitation on all by 5 days in November (and on one of those not-raining days, the construction crane fell down in Bellevue): 22 days of rain and 3 days of snow. The month also included 5 days with over an inch of rain.

Here is a chart of cumulative rainfall starting from October 1 of each year, our rainy season. The bright red line in 2006, showing that we have had more rain by the end of November that any prior year (in the last 11 years). In the days where the red line rises sharply, we had major flooding throughout the Puget Sound area.


At our house, we also set a record for highest low (warmest daily minimum) of 55 F, breaking the old record of 54 F. Our daily low temperatures ranged from 16 to 55 F, and daily highs ranged from 28 to 62 F. We averaged 3.0 therms per day to heat our home with natural gas and averaged 22 kWh per day of electricity.

This makes two months this year that we set new record rainfalls. The other was January, which had 13.10 inches of rain, breaking the old record of 10.65 inches.

December will be anticlimactic, except for Soto and Chunlin. :)