An end-of-the month rainstorm saved the Yachats area from having the driest September in 10 years.
A two-day rainstorm that hit Wednesday dropped anywhere from .59 inches to 1.49 inches of rain on the area – saving the month from being the driest since 2012.
In Yachats, most of the rain for the month fell on Sept. 28 — .49 inches, said Dave Buckwald, supervisor of the city’s wastewater treatment plant.
“According to Yachats wastewater treatment plant records, had that rainy day not happened, it would have been the least amount of rainfall for September since 2012,” he said.
The 2022 total at the plant is 36.48 inches.
Don Tucker, a weather watcher who lives two miles north of Yachats, recorded the lowest number of rain days – just three — in 15 years. That’s much lower, he said, than the three years where September had a low of 10 rain days. Tucker has been measuring the weather since 2007.
He recorded .55 inches last Wednesday and 0.69 inches for all of September.
As usual, it was much wetter up the Yachats River valley.
Jim Adler, who lives at the three-mile mark, recorded 1.30 inches of rain during the end-of-the-month storm. His total for the year is 60.57 inches. Bob Williams, who lives eight miles up river recorded 1.49 inches during the storm and 1.52 inches for the month. His nine-month total for 2022 is 68.97 inches. Jean-Marc Rolland, who lives 10 miles up river, measured 1.13 inches last week, 1.15 inches for the month and 64.33 for the year.
September also saw the high temperature for 2022 in Yachats.
Adam Altson, who lives on Ocean View Drive, recorded a high of 83.3 degrees on Sept. 9 “easily our high for the year.”
“And for the second time in three years, we had some pretty bad smoke and haze for about 24-36 hours” on Sept. 9-10, Altson said.
