Seattle made a brief return to its rainy reputation this week, but the summer heat is coming right back around.

Umbrellas went up (yes, umbrellas, Seattle) as rain showers came down under gray skies on Wednesday and Thursday. The precipitation might’ve seemed significant, but National Weather Service meteorologist Samantha Borth said this week’s rains were not “particularly wet” and she “wouldn’t necessarily call it unusual by any means.”

June and July made for a dry Seattle summer, so any rain stands out by contrast. July 25 was the only day of rainfall the entire month, accumulating only 0.01 inches — hardly making up for our 6.5-inch deficit compared to normal rainfall by this time of the year.

This week accumulated 0.16 inches of rain in Seattle, Borth said on Friday, not much more

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