No more Fancy Pants weather reports but, yes, this is a rainy August

Was cooking up a post about today's crappy rain and tried to hop over to KING 5's Schoolnet Weather report for Stevens Elementary -- and found, sadly, it's no longer available. Boo.

Anyhow, Stevens' replacement -- the Husky Stadium station -- says we got about .57 inches of rain today. If that's accurate, it's basically more rain in a single day than we typically get in the entire month of August (as measured a few miles south down at the airport). The table below is from a post I wrote last summer -- 2 reasons why this summer feels extra crappy. Ignore the August 2007 data in the table because I was writing mid-month -- we ended up at .73 inches in 2007, btw. But even without that, you can see that our Augusts are typically relatively dry.

So far in 2008, we're already over an inch of rain and people are bitching because it certainly feels like summer is over. If you want to sound like an old-timer, tell them this ain't nothing compared to 2004.