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STL Rainfall...already above normal for the year!
Jul 31, 2008 | 12:53 PM
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Adding up yesterday's rainfall at Lambert, it now looks like our year-to-date rainfall has surpassed the normal rainfall for an entire year!

Normal annual rainfall................38.75"

Rainfall so far in 2008.................38.96"

My favorite statistic....if we don't receive another drop of rain (or flake of snow) this year, we would be in an incredible drought by New Year's day....but the year would go down in the record books as "above average precipitation"!

July rainfall is nearly double the normal for the month....all months this year have been above normal, except for January and June.  Saint Louis rainfall records go back about 130 years...and the highest rainfall in any year is 54.97" in 1982.  We're definitely on pace to make a run at this record!

(This data is all from the NWS Saint Louis website and has not been verified with the National Climatic Data Center)

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IbKat read my blog view my photos
Jul 31, 2008 | 3:46 PM

So we should have beautiful fall foliage, past few years havent offered much do to our very dry springs and summers
jeepers4559 read my blog view my photos
Aug 8, 2008 | 12:06 PM

I keep waiting for the rain to stop or the pattern to shift, but it just keeps coming. Really wondering what this winter is going to be like.

And we should be collecting it and shipping it to the west. They're in a serious drought situation. They can't get it, we can't stop it, somehow we should figure out how to share. LOL
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I'm the Fox 2 "fill-in" meteorologist and a huge weather geek. This picture was taken in Bora Bora...a break from my studies while at the University of Hawaii.

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