Weather.com - Nick Wiltgen, 10/3/12
September will go down as one of the hottest and driest Septembers on record for many areas of the West. Those hot, dry extremes constituted the vast majority of the monthly records set nationally in the recently-concluded month.
A slew of low-precipitation records were tied or broken from the Pacific Northwest east to the Black Hills of South Dakota. Seattle had its third-driest September, with 0.03 inch, but this followed the driest August on record to make the driest August-September combo ever officially observed there.
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