Unusual Sept Weather - HEAVY rains coming WA & OR

When I moved here in 2001 I had NEVER seen rain like we had that fall. My hubby called it "Vietnam" rain - torrential. We moved from Idaho and they had been in a drought cycle for about 10 yrs. It was an eye opener..LOL When we were unloading the rental truck we had it's ramp down and into the garage opening about 3'. We had to stop unloading because the rain was sheeting down the ramp soo hard it was starting to flood the garage. That happened several times too AND it would settle in like that for a couple days.

I do agree that we usually don't see heavy rain until the 3rd week in October, but this has been a crazy fall. A few days of 70° then a few days of liquid sunshine.

Gotta luv Mother Nature...
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Being a professional "weather guesser" (meteorologist) must be the most frustrating job on the planet. All that education and training and the weather still does what it wants. Weatherbase.Com is as good a tool as any to get info on weather averages by month over a number of years for temps, precipitation, etc. for many cities within each state in the past. But its still just history.
Flagstaff and Phoenix are only 150 miles apart, but they certainly have different weather because of altitude. Washington and Oregon have relatively mild weather considering their northern latitude. If all that rain was snow, they'd be buried from December to March.
Its lucky for us RVers that we can bring clothing for most all weather conditions.

On the bright side the weather predictions in the NorthWest tend to be some of the Worst on the planet.

My initial reaction was, 'this is fall, we get heavy rains'. But then I realized that this is still September. But mid October isn't that far off. On Oct 13 last year Cliff Mass was talking about similar amounts

http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-faucet-turns-on.html

and Oct 9, 2010
http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2010/10/heavy-rains.html

In 2003, it was an Oct 20 storm that damaged many forest service roads. But other record breaking wet days in Seattle were in Nov and Dec
http://www.seattleweatherblog.com/rain-stats/

North Cascades Highway (WA20) has already had 2 closures this year due to mud flows. Though in those cases it was relatively localized thurderstorms that produced floods.