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Normally Hartford has like 50 inches of liquid by now, they only have 45"!
Can you provide a link for Hartford's average annual rainfall? The only two I could find, Wiki and Accu, show it to be 45 inches. Not that I trust them...
Can you provide a link for Hartford's average annual rainfall? The only two I could find, Wiki and Accu, show it to be 45 inches. Not that I trust them...
Ha.. Thanks for pointing out my typo. I showed the map where Hartford has 30 inches and I said they have 45" .
The normal year to date is around 45" I meant, they only have 30 inches.
Use these 2 links... 1st one is easiest... 2nd one has a nice graph
About 4" below normal here. In mid September we were over 7" below normal. We were at extreme drought (D3) in early October but have since come down to moderate drought (D1) with the far eastern part of the county only being abnormally dry.
Might as well update.. with all the rains and snows past 3 months check it out... All hype. What happened? Goodbye drought. Pacific flow and active storm patterns.
3 months ago 77% of region abnormally dry. 43% moderate drought.
Now only 33% is dry. 14% in moderate drought and notice its just southern NH, MA & CT. Severe drought only 2% in localized areas.
We've had a slow steadily accumulating precipitation deficit. Our average rainfall is 47", last year was 32". Year before 41". We're about a third below average so far this year, but possible this week could erase that.
.CLIMATE... March was a very wet month across the entire area and in some cases
such as at JFK it was the wettest month in over 2 years (JFK had
5.79 inches in March and the last month to be wetter than this was
back in December 2014 with 7.04 inches). Given the 3 precipitation
events in the last half of March that produced storm event totals of
an inch or more of liquid plus the 2 events this week we will
continue to see significant improvements in precipitation departures
across the area racked up over the last 2 years courtesy of the
drought. At this point it is safe to say the short term drought is
over or will be soon and recovery of drought metrics will shift to
any longer term deficits and metrics that take longer to recover
such as groundwater supplies.
Parts of southern New England are running 20-30″ rainfall deficits over this time, which is a gigantic number. And if you’re not a numbers person you don’t have to ask a stat geek like me. You just had to take a look around. We had a tremendous number of trees and shrubs die off last year, and it was very noticeable by autumn. Reservoirs were extremely low and numerous water restrictions were in place. We had the worst gypsy moth caterpillar outbreak since the 80s due to the very dry spring.
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