Weekend drops as much rain on Seattle as all of summer

The weekend rain is putting a dent in Washington state's dry conditions.

The National Weather Service in Seattle tweeted Saturday that the Seattle area had gotten .72 inches of rain. That's the same total amount we'd gotten over the previous four months.

"Total overall for the weekend was mostly in the couple-tenths to a half-inch range. The mountains had a little more, like a half-inch to an inch. And out at the coast, they had a little over an inch," National Weather Service meteorologist Gary Schneider said.

Meanwhile, we're waiting to see what all of our recent rain is doing to the drought situation in the state.

According to the latest map released by the US Drought Monitor last Thursday, some areas on the coast, along with sections of Whatcom, Skagit, Snohomish, King, Pierce, and Lewis counties had moved into the severe drought category. The rest of the state was either abnormally dry or in a moderate drought.

But that data was released before the weekend rain arrived.