Wettest 12 months in U.S. history

Bob Henson
Wunderground
Wed, 08 May 2019 12:07 UTC

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Annual precipitation across the contiguous U.S. has increased by about 7% over the past century. Blue bar shows the linear increase since 1895, while the red curve is a smoothed version of the year-to-year numbers in green. When averaged over running four-year periods (not shown), the past four years are the wettest on record for the contiguous U.S.

The 12 months ending in April 2019 were the wettest year-long period in U.S. records going back to 1895, according to the monthly U.S. climate summary issued Wednesday by the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Averaged across the contiguous U.S., the total of 36.20" made the period from May 2018 to April 2019 the first year-long span ever to top 36". The old record for any 12-month period was 35.78", from April 2015 to March 2016.

Given the fierce drought-related impacts of the 2010s—including multiple deadly wildfire disasters from Tennessee to California—it may seem a bit counterintuitive that the nation has actually been getting wetter overall. Across the contiguous U.S., average yearly precipitation has risen by about 2" over the past century, from around 29" to just over 31" (see Figure 1). For the entire nation, including Alaska and Hawaii, precipitation increased by about 4% in the period from 1901 to 2015, according to the U.S. National Assessment.

Comment: For additional information on the seasonal and regional details read more here . The article does however does include some rather tiresome man-made global warming propaganda.

Also of relevance: Ice Age Farmer Report: "Wettest Winter Ever" - Farmers Desperate - Massive Solar Storm Warning

2018 was wettest year on record in over 2 dozen cities in the East, Midwest, including Washington D.C. and Pittsburgh

Reader Comments

zman · 2019-05-11T16:45:54Z

I have no doubt about this at all. We (N Ark) have had not one 2 week period without rain since September of last year. No turning over the garden in the late autumn, too wet. No planting in late Feb, too wet. Finally got it in after a 3 day stretch of unseasonal hot weather (early May), now in danger of rotting. This is off topic, but I have come to believe this is what the chemtrails are about. Many hypothesized chemtrails were to keep the earth cooler during 'global warming' to ameliorate it's effect. Recently I read a study that stated that chemtrails were actually increasing temps. This is actually more likely in my view...it's intended to artificially keep the temps up as we enter these solar minimums. Since this has been going on since the late 90s, this also means TPTB were aware long ago of what was coming...or I'm all wet and they're just trying to kill us after all.

cracker · 2019-05-11T17:13:40Z

zman here in new mexico they chemtrail right before a storm , they do it alot at night now ,they started so long ago that people accept it as normal and don't give it a second thought they have everything stored for themselves and for the group they want to keep alive long enough to control . Now in the guise of MAGA trump raises tariff knowing all to well that people can't afford it so all of you who voted and love trump so much GFY ( go fuck youselves ) cause he doesn't giive a plug nickel about you. are you farmers waking up yet ??????????????????????