A neighbor told me that in Seattle it is like someone throws a switch in October. It starts to rain. And of course at higher elevations it starts to snow. This week it started to rain and I noticed new snow on "The Brothers", a pair of mountain peaks visible out the back of the house. A glacier is visible year round. Snow was predicted last night at elevations above 5000', and the taller peak stands 6,842 feet (2,085 m).
The Brothers were named by George Davidson, the same surveyor who named Fauntleroy, in 1853. George married Ellinor Fauntleroy, and the mountains were named in honor of her two brothers.
The weather forecast this time of year is pretty simple: If it is not raining, it soon will be.