Bellingham breaks rainfall record

Bellingham has received 4.73 inches of rain between Oct. 19 and 27, breaking two daily rain records.

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — A storm brought record-breaking rainfall to the Bellingham area and drenched the rest of Puget Sound over the weekend.

Here’s how much rain fell across the region.

Bellingham saw the most rain among the lowland gauges, recording 2.12 inches of rain on Sunday. Bellingham also shattered the previous daily rainfall record of 1.75 inches set in 1985.

KING 5 Senior Meteorologist Rich Marriott said the culprit was a wet weather system with a cell that sat over Bellingham on Saturday night, dumping

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