The low-lying areas of the central Oregon coast continue to fall behind yearly averages for rainfall, based on November’s numbers, but there is still plenty of precipitation falling in the foothills of the Coast Range.
The city of Yachats recorded 8.23 inches of rain at its wastewater treatment plant on West Seventh Street in November, two inches below the 10-year average for November of 10.58 inches. The 11-month total for the city is 47.06 inches – some 13 inches less than the 11-month average of 60.32.
Adam Altson, who lives just west of the treatment plant, measured 7.95 inches in November and 47.95 inches for the year.
Don Tucker, who lives two miles north of Yachats on the east side of U.S. Highway 101, measured 9.94 inches in November and has 58.49 inches so far this year.
Up the Yachats River valley is a different matter.
Jim Adler, who lives at the three-mile mark, recorded 11.03 inches of rain in November for an 11-month total of 74.76 inches. Adler noted that it would take heavier-than-average rainfall — more than 16 inches — in December to reach his yearly average of 91.57 inches of rain.
At the eight-mile mark, Bob Williams measured 16.05 inches of rain in November and has 88.12 inches so far this year. At the 10-mile mark, Jean-Marc Rolland had 12.87 inches in November and 78.60 inches for the year.
Other interesting tidbits from YachatsNews’ weather watchers about November:
- The first freeze of the fall was Nov. 14;
- 2.74 inches of rain fell Nov. 4 at Tucker’s home;
- Tucker measured 18 days with rain, the lowest he’s recorded in the last 15 years. The average number of November rain-days is 24;
- Over the past 15 years Tucker’s average number of rain days for the entire year is 229. Through November there were 174 rain days. “So we will fall well short of the average, even if every day in December produces measurable precipitation,” Tucker said.
- Altson measured five days in mid-November with temperatures above 60 degrees, including 65.6 degrees on Nov. 16. The area’s first big windstorm hit the morning of Nov. 30, he said, with gusts to 58 mph.