Seattle weather: A week of rain follows record dry October

Seattle Times breaking news reporter

October is turning rainy right at the end of the month, like it’s scrounging together a last-minute Halloween costume.

Otherwise tasked with ushering us into fall with thematic cozy weather that makes you shut in with a warm blanket, the 10th month has instead been one of the driest Octobers on record with weather often more reminiscent of summer.

Only last weekend did October begin to show the overcast and ominous aura you might expect. And turns out, the rain was just procrastinating, because we’re about to see showers in some form every day of the week.

The system that brought us some steady moisture Sunday will be wrapping up its reign over the city Monday morning with showers “here and there,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Steve Reedy, but it won’t amount to more than a few hundredths of an inch.

Then, we’ll take a deep breath Monday night before the next system swings in Tuesday with…