Fun with climate data: divergent rainfall totals
After the deluge, at 23.09 inches, we are still well below normal precipitation for the calendar year, according to measurement at the National Weather Service forecast office at Sand Point in Seattle.
But at Sea-Tac Airport, the total for the year (35.44 inches) is above normal after yesterday's rain.
Down in Olympia, still slightly below normal (42.89 inches) in a consistently dry year. And in Quillayute on the Olympic Peninsula, where they've been drenched even more than usual all year, the rainfall total is well above normal. With a month to go, they've just passed the normal year total, at 100.37 inches.
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Comments:
Posted Wed, Dec 5, 10:49 a.m. inappropriate
One season does not make an average...: So hopefully, the flat earth society folks will recall basic math before making the usual pronouncements of "AHAAAA! there is no warming..." and secondly... the AMOUNTS in total are significant, but more so is the the level of intensity of specific storms. As one who recalls the infamous Columbus Day Storm... the idea that we out poured that 24 hours, which was technically the tail end of a typhoon, is a bit scarry.