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Not surprised though, as NYC is incredibly wet compared to most of Europe with 50 inches of precipitation each year.
How do the days of precipitation compare?
I'd love to see a map showing mean annual precipitation days... or better yet, mean annual precipitation hours! Some places tend to drizzle all day when it rains... others might pour for a half hour before the sun comes back out.
I'd love to see a map showing mean annual precipitation days... or better yet, mean annual precipitation hours! Some places tend to drizzle all day when it rains... others might pour for a half hour before the sun comes back out.
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In an average summer, Chicago can expect measurable rain (0.01 inch or more) to fall on 29 days during the 92-day period from June 1 through Aug. 31. That’s 32 percent of the days, or about one day out of three. That is the result of a computer scan of Chicago’s official precipitation file — 139 years of data from 1871 through 2009.
But .01 inch of rain will barely dampen your shirt. A substantial rain, say 0.25 inches or more, falls on average 12 of summer’s 92 days, or one day out of eight. However, Chicago’s summers are not as rain-soaked as those statistics might suggest. Most summer rain falls during thunderstorms; the rain is intense but of short duration. Even a day with heavy rain typically features many rain-free hours.
As if the roller coaster ride in January & February wasn't enough.
And now that March is coming in, these warm ups will naturally get stronger and north more and the cold air will still continue to fight and push south. That's why Spring can have some big and often wide ranges. Except we been getting them over the winter this year thanks to the warm flow from the south.
Sorry for the double post. Realized it should of went in the March thread but I was going to delete the one in the winter thread but figured leave both to have on file.
AccuWeather: Second week of March in the 60s, third and fourth weeks like February. Cold (50s) early April, too. It's forecasting "cool, damp" for much of the Atlantic South.
As of now, our daffodils have started to grow and I saw some tiny pink flowers on a group of trees the other day.
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