It has been a soggy, soggy rain season so far.
Since Oct. 1, some 15 in. of precipitation had been measured at Seattle-Tacoma Airport.
Average for this time of year is 9.37 in. and the record is 16.6 in.
Those time references are Zulu Time.
21Z = 1 pm Pacific Standard Time (PST);
06Z = 10 pm PST.
Would it not be simpler if the entire world switched to Zulu Time? Zulu Time was called Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) before 1972: the time at the zero meridian in Greenwich, London. Today it is also called Coordinated Universal Time or Universal Time Coordinated (UTC).
[Graphic from NOAA Weather Prediction Center]