PORT ANGELES — That soft sigh you hear on the wind is the grass saying, “Aaaahhh!”
Rain returned to parts of the North Olympic Peninsula on Sunday, gurgling in the gutters, hissing under car tires and spatting on hats and jackets.
As of 5 p.m., Sunday, .38 inches of rain had fallen on Port Angeles.
Port Townsend received no rain, according to data measured at the Jefferson County Courthouse.
It’s been a while, but it only seemed like it hadn’t rained since sometime last winter.
According to the National Weather Service in Seattle, Port Angeles got a half inch of liquid sunshine on Aug. 17.
That, though, was a sudden storm. Sunday’s showers were closer to the real thing, the rain that starts in autumn and hangs around until spring.
Moreover, it has been a dry summer. Johnny Burg, weather service meteorologist, said the average August precipitation in Port Angeles is eight-tenths of an inch.
Until Sunday, rainfall at William Fairchild International Airport had been slightly more than half an inch.
Except for that Aug. 17 storm, the last measurable precipitation was on July 15, when the region got a miserly .05 inch of wet stuff.
Burg said the wet weather should continue today with a chance of thunderstorms.