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Is the amount of rain we are getting this year more the norm compared to last year where I feel like it didn't rain as much. Only been here less than 2 years so not sure what the norm is.
Is the amount of rain we are getting this year more the norm compared to last year where I feel like it didn't rain as much. Only been here less than 2 years so not sure what the norm is.
No we did not get as much rain last year at this time, it was very dry in May and even June but I am not sure what the norm is.
Is the amount of rain we are getting this year more the norm compared to last year where I feel like it didn't rain as much. Only been here less than 2 years so not sure what the norm is.
IMO, the norm is for Raleigh to be paying huge water bills because we are in a drought and Falls Lake is about to run dry.
(Fortunately Cary draws from Jordan Lake for drinking water so that was only Raleigh.)
Seriously though, it's only in the last few years that we have had no watering restrictions during summer. Google "Falls Lake / drought" to look up lots of stories about the 2007/2008 period when it very nearly did run dry - within 6 weeks of running out at one point I believe.
I rather like the rain. Still getting plenty of sunny days intermixed, I think.
Edited to add: of course, I don't know the full history of rain vs drought. Maybe 40 years ago it rained as much as this or more. My direct experience has been the last 16 years. And it does rather seem to me that we got a lot of heat and drought up till just a few years ago.
This seems like a lot of wet weather to me. Just seems to be going on and on and on. More wet hours than usual in my opinion, but not like we've been inundated. The lawns just stay a little squishy. No doubt this will be balanced by a drier than usual summer.
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