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Herbert D. Wiltz Jr. rides his bike through downtown Tacoma, Wash. to have dinner with friends at the Tacoma Rescue Mission Saturday.
By Alexander Smith, NBC News contributor
The heavy rains that have soaked the Pacific Northwest could result in Seattle’s wettest September on record, meteorologists said Monday.
The Emerald City, as well as Washington’s state capital Olympia, and Astoria, Ore., experienced on Saturday their wettest ever September day as a powerful barrage of storms pummeled the area.
Harsh winds and rain thrashed across the Pacific Northwest this weekend, shutting down roads, flooding streets, and downing power lines. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports from Seattle.
Elsewhere, high winds brought down trees and power lines in Portland, Oregon, where 25,000 customers were without power on Saturday evening, provider PGE said. The Weather Channel said 70 to 75 mph winds had been observed in other parts of the state.
Seattle alone has seen five inches of rain for the month -- the 3rd highest since records began in 1948 -– and only half an inch more is needed to make it the wettest on record.
Kevin Roth, lead meteorologist at the Weather Channel, said that while the worst of the deluge was over, there was a chance that the 1968 record being broken on Monday.
“This is unusual for September,” Roth said. “Normally the wet season is more into the month of October and moving into November. This is four weeks early.”
On Saturday, Seattle’s 1.71 inches of rain was the most to fall on the city in a single September day, beating the 1.65 inches set on September 22, 1978.
Olympia’s 2.93 inches smashed the previous record of 1.67 inches on September 17, 2010, and Astoria’s 3.16 beat the 2.26 inches which fell on September 16, 1997.
Outside of the cities, the mountainous East and South of Seattle will see heavier rain, with one-to-two inches of rain expected to fall. Elevations above 5,000 feet will see snow, Roth said.
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