September is not over, yet our annual rainy season pattern seems to have arrived.  By the time this storm is over, we'll have well over 2 inches of rainfall for September -- which is normally the last reliably dry month of the year. 

In fact, it's raining so early in the season, official records -- which begin October 1st of each year -- won't count this month's storms! 

Temperatures have been running 10 to 15 degrees below normal for the past couple of weeks, with the first snow of the season falling on Mount Hood on Friday.

It's been an unusually cool summer, and the warm days of the summer rarely hit on the weekend.  I was curious whether this was simply my perception, or whether the data would show it.

So I pulled down the data from the National Weather Service and the Oregon Climate Service at Oregon State University.  After importing the data into Excel, I ran a comparison.  Well, you can see for yourself: