As of Friday morning, just under 1.5 inches of rain had fallen in Roseburg in the past few days.
More than 34 percent of the state is currently in an extreme drought, which includes most of Douglas County, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Compare that to the same time last year, when none of the state was in a drought.
Marc Spilde, a NWS meteorologist, said everyone is counting on rain this winter, because two years of drought doesn’t bode well for the following summer, especially for fire season.
Spilde said, “If we have another winter here where it’s dry it’s going to be problematic going into the summer.
“Up in our area we had one day of lightning this summer and you saw what it did.
Spilde said normally there would be 2.5 inches of rain in the first two weeks of the month.
Typically there would be more than two and a half inches of rain, Spilde said.
But, he said, it could happen.
Stream flows for October were 57 percent of normal, according to the water report.