March 17, 2025 4:30 a.m.

Sunday was the wettest day in March ever for Roseburg.

Forecasters at the National Weather Service in Medford told News Radio 93-9 FM and 1240 KQEN that the Roseburg Regional Airport measured 3.47 inches of precipitation. The previous record rain for a day in March was 2.29 inches, set on March 12th, 2012.

It was also the wettest March 16th in history. The previous record was 0.87 inches of rain which was measured in 1932.

As of Sunday, the airport has measured 6.92 inches of rain for the month. That makes it the third wettest March in history, with the month just over half complete. The wettest March was in 2012, when 8.65 inches of rain was recorded.

The record for one-day precipitation in Roseburg was 4.35 inches recorded on November 19th in 1996.