Rain

[paulsharvey]

It looks like locally, we average 55" of rain annually, with 111 days of rain. It's not spread evenly, but that's less total than I thought.

 

[Oaktree]

I truly believe that we have the most brutal weather in the country here along the Gulf Coast. Five of the 10 cities with the highest rainfall average are here in Louisiana.

Many people don't realize that dewpoint is the best measure of weather comfort. Not humidity, and not temperature.

Any dewpoint above 70 is considered 'oppressive'. Down here, we often have dewpoints at 75 and sometimes up to 80*.

Dewpoint at 80* is disgusting, gross, brutal, ugly, and any other uncomfortable way you want to describe it.

Right now at 7pm our dewpoint is 77.3*

You can have it. Why would anyone want to live where it's that humid? I'm pretty useless if the DP gets into the high 60s.

Only been in Louisiana once...part of a road trip in the early 80s. Weather was quite pleasant when I was there...it was in late Sept., felt like early Sept. here. The day I was leaving the DJ on the station I was listening to made a comment to the effect "if you're visiting here for the first time, we get about 5 days a year like this, and you've just seen 3 of them".

 

[Complete Turf Care]

You can have it. Why would anyone want to live where it's that humid? I'm pretty useless if the DP gets into the high 60s.

I live here because my family and friends are here. Food is amazing, all the hunting and fishing you could ever want to do, winters are mild, and we can work outside most of the year. Parties and festivals all the time. I could go on. But by far the main reason I live here is because this is where my family is.

 

[oosik]

It rained here yesterday. Not enough to register on my Davis but the porch boards got wet. It's a start.

 

[AnotherBueller]

It looks like locally, we average 55" of rain annually, with 111 days of rain. It's not spread evenly, but that's less total than I thought.

Here in Jefferson County MO my Davis is showing 13.37" rain for the month and 33.37" for the year with 76% humidity @ 86F, with a 71F dew point right now.

 

[oosik]

Our normal annual rainfall is right around 15 inches. So....since I've recorded 7.87 inches - half way to our annual average.

 

[lman]

It looks like locally, we average 55" of rain annually, with 111 days of rain. It's not spread evenly, but that's less total than I thought.

It must be hard to make hay there.

 

[J&K]

It must be hard to make hay there.

Sure is here. We have fields we have not cut yet this year. We are over 11" this month alone.

 

[lman]

Sure is here. We have fields we have not cut yet this year. We are over 11" this month alone.

I don't see your location in your profile. Inquiring minds may want to know where here is?

 

[Oaktree]

Sure is here. We have fields we have not cut yet this year. We are over 11" this month alone.

Not sure where you live, but we've gotten at least that much here in July...more than double the average. In NEK Vermont, just across the river they're probably close to twice that. Lyndonville/St. Johnsbury area has gotten hit really bad.

 

[ponytug]

Not sure where you live, but we've gotten at least that much here in July...more than double the average. In NEK Vermont, just across the river they're probably close to twice that. Lyndonville/St. Johnsbury area has gotten hit really bad.

It does seem like Vermont has been hit pretty heavily the last three years all the way from the NorthEast Kingdom down to midstate.

All the best, Peter

 

[J&K]

I don't see your location in your profile. Inquiring minds may want to know where here is?

Not sure where you live, but we've gotten at least that much here in July...more than double the average. In NEK Vermont, just across the river they're probably close to twice that. Lyndonville/St. Johnsbury area has gotten hit really bad.

Keep forgetting to fix that. Mid Michigan

 

[oosik]

Hey! Once again, my Davis predicts upcoming rain.

 

[oosik]

Well - finally. Got enough rain to register on my Davis. Been "raining" for the last hour. Got - 0.02 inch of rain.

Yes, I know - not a whole lot. BUT - everything is wet.

 

[paulsharvey]

Looks like we are right on the line between the 3-5" and the 5-8" tonight-tuesday from TS Debby.

 

[oosik]

There is no way I could control even 3" of rain here. There would be massive erosion and flooding. Our normal is less than 1.2" inches per month.

 

[Mtsoxfan]

It does seem like Vermont has been hit pretty heavily the last three years all the way from the NorthEast Kingdom down to midstate.

All the best, Peter

NEK is where I live. Last year, July had record floods, this year, on exact date of anniversary, saw more record flooding, this time, even closer to home. last week, storm stalled and dumped 4-8" of rain. Went to survey damage of neighbors, and saw up close and personal the devastation. Stopped at a couples home, lived there 50 years. What has been a 5' wide stream turned into a 100'+ torrential river. 3am they heard creaking, moved there cars out of garage, just before river cut out 20' bank underneath. GONE. Soon after, their bedroom, GONE. River washed out roughly 8' under basement slab. 1/2 home still standing. Offered to go in, after checking block foundation for cracks... Got a bunch of items removed, but their loss will be great. 8' metal culvert from hundreds of yard up the road was washed down to their home. Rain, rain, go away. Let us rebuild, again...

 

[ponytug]

NEK is where I live. Last year, July had record floods, this year, on exact date of anniversary, saw more record flooding, this time, even closer to home. last week, storm stalled and dumped 4-8" of rain. Went to survey damage of neighbors, and saw up close and personal the devastation. Stopped at a couples home, lived there 50 years. What has been a 5' wide stream turned into a 100'+ torrential river. 3am they heard creaking, moved there cars out of garage, just before river cut out 20' bank underneath. GONE. Soon after, their bedroom, GONE. River washed out roughly 8' under basement slab. 1/2 home still standing. Offered to go in, after checking block foundation for cracks... Got a bunch of items removed, but their loss will be great. 8' metal culvert from hundreds of yard up the road was washed down to their home. Rain, rain, go away. Let us rebuild, again...

That was good of you. I'm so sorry.

I lived once near a stream that was 6" deep and 3-4' wide most of the year. One weekend a cell stalled over the valley, the rain started lightly Saturday morning and just steadily got more intense all day. The little 3' stream became 100' wide and 6-12 feet deep. 30x30' boulders got moved so far down stream that I didn't recognize where they had come from. A flood plain with 3-5' of soil on it turned into a cobblestone and boulder field, with many fields washed away. All things considered, very little loss of life.

I happened to be downriver a bit that weekend, perhaps ten miles, and perhaps fifteen hundred feet lower in elevation, adjacent to the main river fed in part by the valley where I was living. The main river was normally 35-40' wide and 3-5' deep, clear blue water. It went to 250' wide and thirty feet plus deep, and the color of dirt. Whole trees and roof tops of homes sailed on by like twigs or leaves in a normal river.

Pretty unforgettable. I showed before and after photos to a friend who was a geologist who specialized in erosions and sediments, who opined it was a 500-1,000 year flood.

All the best,

Peter

 

[grsthegreat]

Have received. 0.25 inches of much needed rain since about 3am today. Better than nothing

 

[oosik]

So - grsthegreat - it's you folks that got most of the predicted rain. Well - it's good that somebody got the rain. We ended up getting 0.02 inch.