Rainfall for 2007

[Wai`anae Steve]

Well it began to rain late last night.  So far just about 2" have come down.  During a break I ran out and spread 100 lbs of Apex Palm Fertilizer.

Hopefully the palms grow faster than the weeds.  

Monday Morn-->turned off the irrigation system good for a week  

[The Palm Nut]

I have had 3 inches so far.

Mike

[steve 9atx]

4.67" so far this month in Houston.  Only eight days without at least a trace of rain.  1.79" above normal for January so far.

Steve

[Austinpalm]

7.68" this month and counting.  Second wettest January on Record for Downtown Austin Austin.  6th wettest for the Airport east of town.

Ready for some sun!

[iwan]

Less than 2".  Our annual rainfall is ~12" and starts to taper off rapidly after mid February.  No rain is forcast out to 10 days.

[osideterry]

1.06" since July of 2006 at the Oceanside Marina.

1.67" at Lindberg Field in San Diego.

[steve 9atx]

Lord, Terry.  Y'all do live in a desert.

Steve

[osideterry]

Our local TV weathermen drive me crazy. I heard one last night refer to how wonderful this January has been with all the sunshine. No mention of record low temps on an almost daily basis, 15% humidity, and how we are 5-6" below normal rainfall. If there is even a 30% chance of rain, it's mentioned in cautionary terms and might affect our drive time.

[SubTropicRay]

Fairly dry here.  El Nino may be turning into La Nina.

[gsn]

Ray,

Better check with HAPP before making that statement! ::

[Exotic Life]

Hi,

I have so far 117 mm, thats is 4.60 inch of rain. Only in the month Januari i have got 112 mm that is 4.40 inch of rain. So Januari was far to mild but also wet ... not the wettest month ...

Robbin

[Wai`anae Steve]

oops,  forgot I started this topic.  Should not have started it again in the palms section.

Rain Chart for Wai`anae

[amazondk]

We had a pretty wet January here in Manaus, 15 inches of rain, 393 mms.  The normal average perciptation is 260 mms.  

dk

[spockvr6]

1.87" in January 2007 in my yard and 2.47" for 2007 to date.

[Al in Kona]

At our place in Papa Bay, South Kona we got a little over 3 inches from this last storm that passed thru here a few days back.  It was welcome as it was getting a bit dry.  I don't keep rain records so I don't know what our total 2007 rainfall has been up to now but January was on the dry side for us.  For us Winter tends to be our drier and sunnier time of the year with an occasional storm passing thru (very unpredictable how many reach us here this far south).  We have Summer maximum rainfall - quite different from most of the rest of Hawaii.  Then El Nino makes its appearance and all Hawaii tends to be drier than normal - has this been the case this time for the rest of you Hawaii palm growers?

[aussiearoids]

Very wet month here in Tully had 1400mm for the month , thats nearly 2" a day , hang on gotta wipe this mould of the keyboard so I can see what I'm typing  

[Exotic Life]

I have this month, it was for here a little wet month .. 110 mm/4.3 inch, with this and januari i have so far this year 222 mm/8.7 Inches!

Robbin

[Exotic Life]

(aussiearoids @ Mar. 01 2007,07:51)

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Very wet month here in Tully had 1400mm for the month , thats nearly 2" a day , hang on gotta wipe this mould of the keyboard so I can see what I'm typing  

Wow 1400 mm ? that i 1 month, if i'm right the normal rainfall for a whole year is lower then you're number ...  ???

Robbin

[Walter John]

(aussiearoids @ Mar. 01 2007,21:51)

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Very wet month here in Tully had 1400mm for the month , thats nearly 2" a day , hang on gotta wipe this mould of the keyboard so I can see what I'm typing  

The boot would have been filled many times over..........

[bgl]

Well, we certainly didn't have 1400mm in Feb, but it's still been pretty wet here, with plenty of VERY heavy showers of varying length. We're up to just over 30 inches for 2007 (=about 765mm).

This is what it looked like yesterday morning during one of those downpours. Photo taken from our front lanai (towards "Licuala Lane"!)

[Exotic Life]

Wow that looks wet! pff if you must walk in there or if you're are working as a gardener then you're are so wet!

Robbin

[ZoneTenNut]

Bo,

I love those kind of downpours and that fresh smell of the air as it gets cleaned out. We are still very dry here and really have had next to nothing, in rain so far this year. Can't wait till we start getting downpours like that.

By the way, BEAUTIFUL landscaping.

Roger

[Wai`anae Steve]

Well Feb. was very dry.  The driest since I began keeping track in 2004.

Rainfall at Wai`anae Steve's Hale

[happ]

Sorry to report that this rain year [Jul/Jun] is the driest ever observed in Los Angeles  

Total thus far : 4.36"/0.11m    March is the last month of the so-called rain season

[osideterry]

happ: I've lived in SoCal now since 1987. I'm convinced our rainfall averages are extremely deceptive. I think I can count the number of "average years" since '87 on one hand, and have enough fingers left to turn on my sprinklers.

Using San Diego as an example. We average 10" per year, which sounds arid to anyone living anywhere else. What really happens is we get 5-7 inches of rain for 4 years, and on year 5 we get 23 inches. It's not that exact sequence, but over 20 years the ratio is about that.

[gsn]

Haven't you guys ever heard of the Beach Boys, I beleive they are from there? ::

They told ya a long time ago "It Never Rains In Southern California"!

And they are not even meteorologists!

[osideterry]

That wasn't a Beach Boys song. In fact I challenge anyone to name who sang that song without the aid of google.

It is weird to think we usually go from March to November without any measurable precipitation.

[gsn]

My BAD!! Did they cover it?

Was it Jan & Dean?

edit: terry,after second guess was wrong! looked it up, who the hell is AH?

[osideterry]

I don't know who he is either, but he's probably out of work, out of his head, out of self respect, and out of bread, he's probably under-loved and under fed and wants to go home.

When I tracked him down he said this: "Please don't tell them how you found me. Don't tell them how you found me give me a break.

Give me a break."

[bgl]

I can relate to "average" being deceptive, but keep in mind what "average" actually means. Some people here use the word "normal" when they refer to the amount of rain during a particular period, and "normal" is DEFINITELY just plain wrong. As an example, these are the total rainfall numbers, at our specific location, for the month of February for the ten years since 1998:

1998: 1.65 inches

1999: 23.39

2000: 2.29

2001: 18:46

2002: 11.61

2003: 6.27

2004: 13.86

2005: 10.84

2006: 7.56

2007: 13.98

Average for the month of Feb for the last 10 years: 10.99 inches/280 mm.

2002 and 2005 are pretty close to the "average", but to call them "normal" would definitely be a stretch of the imagination!!

[Wai`anae Steve]

Bo,

  Get ready, we had 1.5" last night.  I'm sure you'll get more than that.

[bgl]

Steve,

Sounds good to me!! Overcast here right now and looks like we could get some heavy rain at some point. Hopefully not within the next couple of hourse, since we have a garden tour scheduled for friends of ours in about 10 minutes time....

Bo-Göran

[Exotic Life]

After this march, i have got 282mm/11.10 Inches of rain for this year so far ... but now the months are going to be dryer ..

Robbin

[Jeff Searle]

At the house here, I'm reading just under 5" for 2007. I think were a little behind, so I hope we catch up some later this spring/summer. We sure could use some ...NOW!

Jeff

[steve 9atx]

In Houston, I'm at 14.34" as of yesterday.  That's about 3.5" above normal and 8" over last ytd.  Even though spring has had it's painful cold snaps, the rain situation has been nice and steady.  Last night we got down to 37F, only 3F above the record low set in 1939.  IMHO, take out the urban heat island and it ties the record.

If you haven't seen this animation: http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/12_week.gif it's informative to check from time to time - it certainly shows what you folks in FL and the desert southwest are going through right now.  With the last few weeks of rain, almost all of TX is caught up to normal.

Steve

[Jeff Searle]

Up to about 6 1/2 " for the year now. Should be more by now.

Jeff

[osideterry]

San Diego is stuck at 3.39", but that goes back to last July.

(We measure from July 1 to June 30.)

Our average for a year is 10.77", and our average by this date is 8.97". Our total last year was 5.42". I looked it up and we've had 1 "average year" in the 20 I've been in SoCal. By average I mean + or - 2'' from average. Feast but mostly famine rules here.

[osideterry]

More lunchtime digging. In the last 153 years (starting in 1854) San Diego has had 47 years in which the rainfall was at-or-above average.

The math: 70% of those years our rainfall is below average.

[gsn]

(osideterry @ Apr. 11 2007,16:42)

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More lunchtime digging. In the last 153 years (starting in 1854) San Diego has had 47 years in which the rainfall was at-or-above average.

The math: 70% of those years our rainfall is below average.

Terry,

Okay I will bite!

If records have been kept since 1854,and only a third of those years are average or above,why is the average as high as it is? Were there record FLOODS in some of those years bringing the average UP? ???

Suffice it to say you guys in southern California live in a rain forsaken desert! :: Hope you see some measureable rain soon!

[osideterry]

Our annual rainfall amounts look something like this: 5, 8, 7, 22, 6, 8, 5, 7, 19... probably an exaggeration but not much.

Those El Nino years really screw with the concept of average. I do notice my plants enjoy the real stuff better than the piped in water.

Our reservoirs are still rather full from the 20 inches we got 2 years ago. The local media won't make a deal of it until they can send a former runway model/reporter to damn on a lake 30ft below normal.