The summer of 2025 in western Washington can be summarized as warm and dry – many would say nearly ideal.

With the exception of March, the winter and spring months had well below-average rainfall for the year heading into summer. The Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) was nearly five inches below normal for the year through May.

That dry trend continued through much of the summer. Only August had more than the usual rainfall for the month by just more than a tenth of an inch. By the end of September, SEA had finished more than seven inches of rain below average for its annual precipitation thus far.

Elsewhere in western Washington

For the summer months, Olympia finished more than two inches below average, resulting in a total of more than nine inches behind on rainfall for the

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