About 54.34 inches. Three very wet months (April, August and November) and a couple real dry months (June and September), the rest pretty close to seasonal averages.
According to the National Weather Service, Columbia MO got 49.75 inches of precipitation this year, 7.13" above normal (including 7" in December). My folks in St. Louis enjoyed 11.74" of rain in December, giving them a whopping 61.24" on the year. That’s 20.28" above normal.
Dallas, and we got 68 some-odd inches of rain in 2015, 9" above the old highest record, and nearly twice the average annual rainfall.
What’s even more strange is that there was a stretch of drought in the summer believe it or not. From about early June through about mid-September, I think we maybe got 0.25" or so of rain.
Near Sacramento, CA. Average is just above 20 inches of rain - in 2015 we had about 6 inches. Almost all of that was in Feb, Nov and Dec. If El Nino meets expectations, we may be able to put a small dent in the ongoing drought here. People talk about a drought-buster, or miracle March, but we’ll see. Early winter 2014 looked promising, but then the spigot got turned-off in Jan 2015.
We had 45 inches of rain at our central Ohio location, close to 6 inches above normal.
It’s deceptive though - seeing that there was a prolonged dry spell (if not a formal drought) between late summer and mid-fall, then a bunch of rain to push the total above normal for the year.
The most rainfall in a year for any place I’ve lived was about 88 inches near Houston (which tends to alternate between flooding and drought).
40 inches of precipitation, which was about three inches above normal, and 45 inches of snow, which was about nine inches above normal.
A pretty average year in northern Illinois.
Little Rock got 8.38 inches the Dec normal is 4.97 in
total for 2015
61.23 inches the normal is 49.75 in
yes, it was a very wet year. Except very oddly we had a short drought in Aug,Sept, Oct with almost no rain. Then Nov and Dec was crazy wet. Thats what pushed us above normal.
Thank you aceplace57, a standardized link of where to look that up is nice to have. 'cause my search-fu was failing me at finding where in the NWS stats pages is our cumulative data for 2015.
I’m thankful the drought broke in Texas and parts of the south. It was only two or three years ago that they were worried about Atlanta running out. The rains this year helped some, but Atlanta still has issues getting enough water. Texas had lakes and reservoirs drying up and they are full again.
But on the negative side, there is flooding in Missouri and the Mississippi river is threatening levees. We had some flooding last week in Arkansas but thankfully it quickly receded.