Olympia sets rainfall record on Thursday, with more rain to come over the weekend

The daylong downpour on June 9 was expected. But what meteorologists couldn’t predict was that it would shatter rainfall records across Western Washington.

The rainfall total at the Olympia Regional Airport on Thursday measured 1.16 inches, blowing the previous record of 0.8 inches for that day out of the water. The previous record was just set in 2020.

Dustin Guy, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Seattle, said Thursday was the fourth wettest June day on record for Olympia. And more rain is coming, but it won’t look anything like Thursday’s storm.

Guy said another band of rain will travel north through Western Washington, bringing rain Friday night and into Saturday. Things should start to dry up by Saturday afternoon, but it won’t last long.

Guy said there’s another chance of rain coming on Monday that could flow into Tuesday before temperatures start to rise mid-week, keeping the dark clouds at bay.

Temperatures are hovering around the mid-60s for the weekend, with lows in the 40s.

This story was originally published June 10, 2022 at 12:15 PM.

Ty Vinson

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Ty Vinson covers the City of Olympia and keeps tabs on Tumwater and other communities in Thurston County. He joined The Olympian in 2021. Before that, he earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism at Indiana University. In college, he worked as an intern at the Northwest Indiana Times, the Oregonian and the Arizona Republic as a Pulliam Fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription