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How dry we are! Only 0.24 of an inch of precipitation recorded at SeaTac for all of June and July, says KING 5's Jeff Renner via Twitter. Old record? 0.48 of an inch. We're told we may see some of the wet stuff by Thursday or Friday, but in the meantime, keep moisturizing.

First rain in 30 days by aphid00, from the Seattlest Flickr Pool

Seattle is being followed by a rain shadow, rain shadow, rain shadow, but most of the rest of the state is not so lucky. A friend of ours just snapped this picture of the Cowlitz River down in southwestern Washington--"Yes, that's an 80-foot tree heading downstream," he added in the caption. Meanwhile, exit 72 from I-5 (that's the Napavine offramp--go Tigers!) was closed earlier today because of water over the roadway. On Twitter [#waflood] the talk is that I-5 at Centralia/Chehalis *coughfloodplain* will close around midnight (check here). [UPDATE: I-5 is closed--Amtrak is also not running from Seattle to Portland.] Not for the first or last time, of course--the twin cities got drowned in December of 2007.

The ability to endure month after month of days like today is an unappreciated phenomenon unique to this corner of America.