Western Washington is on track for the wettest October on record!

SEATTLE -- This month has been rainy. Very rainy. Like record-shattering rainy.

Heavy rain in the last 48 hours has just added to what could be the wettest October on Record!

"Remember October 2003? We saw our WETTEST DAY EVER!" said Q13 chief meteorologist Walter Kelley. "Over 5 inches in one day here in Seattle. I'll never forget because I was jogging that day and the Queen Anne underpass was full of water and some floating cars!"

That month, nearly 9 inches of rain fell at Sea-Tac Airport and the Federal Building.

As of Oct. 19 this year, 6.19 inches of rain had fallen this month.

And that doesn't even count Thursday's deluge which, according to Q13 meteorologist Rebecca Stevenson, had brought more than an inch of rain to Seattle by 9 a.m.

"The amount of October rain has been just staggering this month," said Q13 meteorologist Tim Joyce. "If this trend continues, with have after wave of impressive precipitation, we could easily end up in the record books."

 

Current October rain records for other locations include:

Most of these sites above are within just a few inches of breaking records.

Q13 meteorologist M.J. McDermott says all of that rain means an increased risk of flooding:

"I’ve also noticed a trend in the last 20 years that I’ve lived and forecasted in the Pacific Northwest. It used to be that our rainiest months were December, January and November for most NW cities," said Joyce. "Now it seems in the last 5-10 years our wettest time of year has been shifting to more impressive rain totals in our ‘transition’ months of October, September, March and April."

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Here's Rebecca's forecast for the next several days (spoiler alert: MORE RAIN!):