PORT ANGELES — Monday afternoon’s rainstorm was fierce but short-lived, leaving little in the way of either official rainfall totals or snowpack, according to National Weather Service data.
Meteorologist Samantha Borth with the National Weather Service in Seattle said the North Olympic Peninsula rainfall totals ranged from about 0.4 of an inch to an inch, with about one to 1.5 inches on the coast and higher totals in the mountains.
Unofficial totals for the 36-hour period ending Tuesday were 0.41 in Port Townsend and half an inch in Port Angeles, she said.
The official NWS station at Quillayute received 1.3 inches.
As far as mountain snowpack, the snow visible in the Olympic mountains wasn’t enough to register at the National Resource Conservation Service’s SNOTEL (snow telemetry) sites.
Mount Crag (3,960 feet) reported zero current snow water equivalent. Waterhole (5,010 feet) reported 0.1 inches. Dungeness (4,010 feet) and Buckinghorse (4,870 feet) were missing data.
