Update: As expected, the rainfall over the weekend in the District pushed 2018 to the city’s wettest year on record. The record of 61.33 inches of rain, set in 1889, was exceeded as of 6:26 a.m. on Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.

Original: As of Friday, D.C. has gone 11 days without rain—the longest dry spell for the city all year, per WTOP.

But when the skies open up this weekend, as the National Weather Service predicts they will, get ready to burst an even more intense record: the District is getting ready to smash its previous record for the rainiest year on record since annual measurements began in 1871.

The current record holder for the wettest year in D.C. is 1889, when Benjamin Harrison became president after defeating Grover Cleveland and the city saw 61.33 inches of rain, per NWS (those facts are not related to one another). It’s more likely that readers remember the year in second place at the moment—2003 had 60.83 inches of rain. Going into the weekend, the District had recorded 60.78 inches in 2018.

The notion that 2018 would shatter previous records has been a distinct possibility for quite some time. By late November, when D.C. broke its record for precipitation in that month, the rains moved 2018 into contention as the third-wettest year in history with five weeks left.

NWS predicts Friday’s rain could total about an inch. On Saturday, NWS is expecting between a quarter and a half inch during both the day and the night. There is a flood watch in effect from Saturday afternoon through late Saturday night.

Some small business owners in the District have suspected that this year’s frequent rains have contributed to slower sales in 2018. “Every time it rains, and we have had so much rain in D.C., nobody shops or goes out to eat,” Fia Thomas, the co-owner of Fia’s Fabulous Finds, told DCist.