I tuned in for Monday Night Football, only to see snow on the ground. “Is the game in Green Bay?,” I asked a friend. No, it turned out to be in Seattle, which is expecting one to three inches of snow tonight.

Poor Seattle has had more than 15 inches of rain in November through Sunday, or 256% of its normal rainfall of 5.9 inches. The situation is so bad that it made the front page of this morning’s New York Times.

The extraordinary storms have already exceeded the November record, and could exceed the all time monthly total precipitation record for the area, set back in December, 1933. Although Seattle is known for being rainy, it typically received less rainfall than Atlanta on an annual basis: the wet reputation is due to the the constant, slow drizzle throughout much of the year.

The cold Seattle weather is a preview of an Arctic blast that will affect much of the nation later this week, although it still looks like it will fall short of Atlanta.