September was a wet month in the Yachats area – or at least four days of it were. But as fall approaches, the total rainfall for the first nine months of the year is still far below average.
As usual, the amount of rain in September depended on where and how it was measured.
The “official” weather gauge at the city of Yachats’ wastewater treatment plant measured 2.54 inches of rain in September, bringing it’s total to 32.53 inches so far this year.
That is 76 percent of the 11-year average of 42.59 inches of rain measured at the treatment plant through September.
Adam Altson, who has a manual gauge just a block away from the treatment plant recorded 4.38 inches of rain in September, for a nine-month total of 45.34 inches. Altson said two storms – Sept. 18-19 and Sept. 27-28 – made up 4.15 inches of the monthly total.
Jim Adler, who lives three miles up the Yachats River near one of the creeks that supplies Yachats’ water, measured 4.07 inches of rain in September for a nine-month total of 49.34 inches. Adler said it was the third wettest September in his 14 years of record keeping.
Don Tucker, who lives two miles north of Yachats and east of U.S. Highway 101, had 2.90 inches of rain in September for a nine-month total of 38.90 inches.
