Here in Honomu, HI we got 182.15 inches this year, way down from 2016 when we got 232.70 inches.
At least we don’t have to ever water the yard.
Here in Honomu, HI we got 182.15 inches this year, way down from 2016 when we got 232.70 inches.
At least we don’t have to ever water the yard.
I don’t know, exactly. The nearest NWS station is about 120 miles south of here, in Seattle. It says about 44 inches down there. Vancouver, BC is 35 miles north of here, and they report about 49 inches.
So I’m going to say 49 inches.
ETA: That’s total precipitation. We get snow.
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12.89
No, inches.
Nearest station reports 5.02"
I think ‘too bloody much’ about covers it. I can’t find an accurate figure.
It just started raining again now, in fact.
95.7 inches
We ended up with 46.61 inches, a little over 7 inches above normal.
It was fairly evenly balanced and there was enough over the summer to keep a gardener happy.
53.64" according the airport, which is 7 miles away. Only had to water the lawn twice this summer.
Northern San Joaquin Valley / near S. F. Bay Area here. None yet this fall/winter season. Maybe a drizzle or two, but nothing notable.
Last fall/winter season (2016/2017), plenty. After 12 years of drought, all our lakes and reservoirs were reduced to mud puddles. Our aquifers were getting all tapped out. Water conservation measures everywhere. Advertising campaigns to promote the social responsibility of brown lawns. “Brown is the new Green” :rolleyes:
But after just ONE rainy season, namely last year, our lakes and reservoirs were brim full again. The water was running out the spillways of the dams. Blog about Lake Berryessa, showing “Glory Hole” style spillway dry and overflowing. (ETA: I had the opportunity to go joy-riding in a 4-seater airplane on March 31. At my suggestion, we flew right over Lake Berryessa at about 2500 feet, just so we could be aerial looky-loos and gaze down upon the full lake.) Elsewhere around the state, copious flooding.
Now I wonder: With our lakes and reservoirs brim full after just one rainy season, do we now have enough water to get through 12 years of drought again? From just one year’s rain? I suspect NOT, because throughout the 12-year drought we also sucked out our underground aquifers. And there is some question over whether those also got fully recharged, and indeed some question whether they ever CAN get fully recharged, because pumping them out caused the overlying land to sink, thus partially collapsing them. That might be forever irreversible!
BTW, where is Honomu, HI.??? I’ve never heard of it. Do you mean, perchance, Hanauma (the name of a Bay near Honolulu, not a city)?
Its just north of Hilo on the Big Island.
I don’t know the numbers, but this summer, southern Pennsylvania was practically a rain forest. We didn’t get huge amounts of rain per day, but we also never went more than a day or two without rain all summer long. I only recall seeing “sunny” in the weather forecast maybe one or two days over the entire summer. “Cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms” was pretty much the every day forecast.
I never did find a good explanation for why we had such excessive moisture over the entire summer.
Since January 1st … 32.75" which is 3.51" below average …
However, our rain year runs Oct 1st to Sept 30th … since Oct 1st … 8.37" which is 7.28" below average …
Since Jan 1st, 52.92"
StG
Not enough. Not a drop since last spring, and everything looks dusty and brown like you would expect in late summer. In January.
I’ve been watching the death of a small apricot tree outside our bedroom window, over the past month or two. Every day it looks more and more wilted and lifeless. Even the eucalyptus trees are looking tired and haggard.
About 48", well above normal.
According to the state, 25 inches. Supposedly more than normal, but it all came early in the year. It has only precipitated 1 inch since Oct 1 and we are in drought conditions.
I lived most of 2017 in Las Vegas, which got about 3.3" of rain - almost 1" below average. Recently moved to Reno, which got almost 16" of precipitation last year - more than twice average.
Update. It’s raining here today. Not a very heavy rain (yet?) but not a light drizzle either. First non-trivial rain of the season, as far as I can remember.
Way too damn much. Thank you, Hurricane Harvey, for helping Houston set a new record high rainfall level. Harvey dropped 60 inches of rain all by itself. The old record was 72 some-odd inches. 2017’s final numbers are predicted to be 85 or 86 inches.
45" of rain plus 68" of snow. The joys of living in a temperate deciduous forest.