Health & Fitness
Dry for a Change... and Where Do We Stand with Rainfall?
A look at how the country is doing in the rainfall and temperature department
The long awaited dry period is almost upon us. In a day or two, dryer air invade the southeast as a fairly strong ridge begins to build over us. That means the weekend should be relatively free of rain although a stray shower can't be ruled out, but only on Saturday. Don't get too excited though... the rain returns toward the middle of next week!
We all know we've been wet the last few months, but how wet have we been?
I debated on the best way to present this data, and there was really no easy way, so I have links to the various maps. There are a lot of images that explain exactly how wet we've been, so I will break this down beginning with the national level, down to regional, state, and then a divisional level. There are 119 years of records, so the number you see on the map tells you the rank in years. Example if you see 119, it's the wettest, 1 is the dryest year. For temps, 119 is the hottest and 1 is the coldest.
You'll get the hang of it... :-)
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Through the end of July, the Southeast is on pace to record its wettest year on record since 1895. The mean regional accumulated precipitation so far this year ranks second with 39.99 inches, just 0.81 inches shy of the record set back in 2003. The wettest year on record in the region was 1929 with 62.38 inches.
This page has both temperature and precipitation graphs for the 4 major reporting cities in Georgia: Atlanta, Athens, Macon, and Columbus. You can see from the graphs, some areas are headed toward record rainfall amounts before the year is over. I've also added a new page that displays the statewide averaged rainfall amounts going back to 1895.
For the first 22 days of August (08/01/13 - 08/22/13), Atlanta has had the 4th coldest average max temp (they actually broke the record for the lowest daily max temp on the 15th and 16th), the 18th coldest average temperature, and the 10th wettest period.
Thanks to the copious amounts of rain that have fallen, take a look at the drought maps... the entire eastern part of the country is completely drought free. Pretty hard to complain about that!
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