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Wettest Day: 25th of August 1988 with 119.9 mm of precipitation.
- Month: August 1988 with 202.9 mm of precipitation.
- Year: 2010 with 1,057.1 mm of precipitation.
Wettest Month: August 2011....17.24 inches (437.9mm)
Very interesting that Bridgeport, CT has had as much as a gulf state for wettest year on record. Not sure where the Mid Atlantic location is but its less than us. What's the furthest north most location with the wettest year near my total?
Very interesting that Bridgeport, CT has had as much as a gulf state for wettest year on record. Not sure where the Mid Atlantic location is but its less than us. What's the furthest north most location with the wettest year near my total?
New York City (JFK).
Bridgeport's total is extremely high, especially to be so close (relatively speaking), but the difference even across New York City can be high, Central Park averages 7-8 inches more rainfall than JFK Airport and they're no more than 20 miles apart.
And rain just kept falling into the night, bringing the daily total--and the new record--up to 8.02 inches for Philadelphia. Additionally, some heavy rain and thunder woke me up around 1:30 this morning, and I guess Philadelphia probably got some of that too, any while obviously anything after midnight doesn't count towards yesterday's precipitation totals, the total rainfall in a period of less than 24 hours was even greater.
May 2, 2010. 7.25" of rain. (May 1-2, 2010 had 13.57" of rain.)
May 2010 had 16.43", a record. It was the wettest month on record just by the May 1-2 event alone.
1979 had 70.12" of rain. (It had the second wettest day on record, September 13, 1979. The first was May 2, 2010, third was May 1, 2010)
For Washington, D.C.:
Annual range in precip: 21.66"/550 mm in 1930 to 61.33"/1,558 mm in 1889. Limiting to the DCA POR (1945-07-01 to present), the range is 26.94"/684 mm in 1965 to 60.83"/1,545 mm in 2003.
Range in monthly precip: trace in Oct 1963 to 17.45"/443 mm in Sept 1934, or 14.31"/363.5 mm in Aug 1955 for DCA.
Wettest day: 6.39"/162.3 mm on 1933-08-23; 6.11"/155.2 mm on 1972-06-21 for DCA
Pittsburgh: Precipitation records have been kept intermittently from 1836 to 1867 before the continuous, official record began in 1872.
Annual range in precip: 22.65"/575 mm in 1930 to 57.41"/1,458 mm in 2004.
Range in monthly precip: 0.06/1.5" in Oct 1874 to 11.05"/281 mm in Nov 1985
Wettest day: 5.95"/151.3 mm on 2004-09-17
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New York City (JFK)
