We broke a bunch of weather records, again. Saturday was the wettest September day ever recorded in Western Washington. Not the wettest day, but the wettest ever in a September. And before Saturday, we had already gotten enough rain that 2013 was going to be at least the third wettest September in Seattle on record. Then we had the record-breaking Saturday, and Sunday was almost as wet, and it rained more on Monday…

We didn’t get a couple weeks of faux summer weather during September as we usually do. A couple days, yeah, but not weeks.

I’ve already switched to my medium jacket. Which is a bit early. Normally what happens is that in September we have a few days where I pull the plastic, almost-waterproof light jacket that spends most of the summer crammed in the bottom of my work backpack (for unexpected rainy days) out for the walk home, or morning where it’s rainy when I leave for work. I wear it for several weeks, and one morning in early October I’ll be walking to work, wearing the windbreaker, and feeling a bit chilled.

“Oops,” I will think, “I should have switched to the other jacket.”

So the next day I pull my medium-weight jacket out of the closet, put away the windbreaker, and I start wearing the medium jacket to work. Until one evening I’ll be walking home in the medium jacket, and I’m uncomfortably cold, and realize that I should have shifted to my winter coat already.

This year has been different. Just over a week before the end of September, during my walk home from work, I realized that the windbreaker wasn’t heavy enough.

It’s still a bit too warm for the coat. But since the wet, cool weather came in earlier than usual, I will not be surprised if the extremely wet, cold weather arrives ahead of schedule.

So I dug my gloves and scarf out of the closet and put them in the bottom of the work backpack. So I’ll have those, at least, when the cold sneaks up on me.